goodbye korea
it is now exactly 14 days, 5 hours, and 57 minutes until i get aboard that last train to los angeles, and things are both hectic and sad, in equal measure. hectic kinda goes without saying -- lugging boxes to the post office, trying to sell my stuff, and going to lots and lots of goodbye dinners/lunches/pub outings. everything is suddenly colored by this sense that i'm seeing it for the last time, which is making me unpredictably sentimental. i never would have thought i'd miss korea so much, and i haven't even left yet! a few nights ago, i read all my livejournal entries from the last three years (wow, that went fast), and decided that korea has probably improved me. there were some painful experiences, but i feel like i've gained some useful perspective on a lot of things. i'm curious whether america will look different through my new eyes.
i'll be arriving in l.a. on the morning of december 1st. i'm staying in glendale and surrounds until december 22, so all you l.a. people should send me emails and invite me to things. i've already made reservations for the new griffith observatory tour, and i've gotten my dad to reluctantly agree not to see casino royale until i get out there, so all the important bases are covered.
just before christmas, i'm flying to columbus, ohio to stay with my mom. i plan (and i use the word "plan" in its loosest possible sense here) to stay there for three months or until my money runs out, whichever comes first. i think (hope) i can manage to finish the first issue of my comic in that amount of time -- the need to finish a personal project is now actively blocking my ability to move ahead with any other part of my life, so this is my last-ditch effort to complete something that's been brewing for about... ugh, eight years. at this point, i think i've sort of dispensed with the notion that i'll ever be able to make money with comics, since i'm so slow. but if i have this one issue under my belt, i'll at least have something to show my grandkids when they ask if i was ever worth anything.
after that's done... i have no idea. there are two issues: first, my girlfriend, second, getting a real job. where i end up working is somewhat dependent on where jiyoung can find work in the states (please god, let her be able to find work in the states). i still fantasize about san francisco or seattle, but all the jobs are down in los angeles, so i'll most likely end up back down there doing games again. i'm now terrified that i've been out of the art loop for a fatally long time, and that nobody will want to hire me. well, that's still a ways off in the future, so i'll try not to brood on it too much yet (har har).
california, here i come. right back where i started from.
i'll be arriving in l.a. on the morning of december 1st. i'm staying in glendale and surrounds until december 22, so all you l.a. people should send me emails and invite me to things. i've already made reservations for the new griffith observatory tour, and i've gotten my dad to reluctantly agree not to see casino royale until i get out there, so all the important bases are covered.
just before christmas, i'm flying to columbus, ohio to stay with my mom. i plan (and i use the word "plan" in its loosest possible sense here) to stay there for three months or until my money runs out, whichever comes first. i think (hope) i can manage to finish the first issue of my comic in that amount of time -- the need to finish a personal project is now actively blocking my ability to move ahead with any other part of my life, so this is my last-ditch effort to complete something that's been brewing for about... ugh, eight years. at this point, i think i've sort of dispensed with the notion that i'll ever be able to make money with comics, since i'm so slow. but if i have this one issue under my belt, i'll at least have something to show my grandkids when they ask if i was ever worth anything.
after that's done... i have no idea. there are two issues: first, my girlfriend, second, getting a real job. where i end up working is somewhat dependent on where jiyoung can find work in the states (please god, let her be able to find work in the states). i still fantasize about san francisco or seattle, but all the jobs are down in los angeles, so i'll most likely end up back down there doing games again. i'm now terrified that i've been out of the art loop for a fatally long time, and that nobody will want to hire me. well, that's still a ways off in the future, so i'll try not to brood on it too much yet (har har).
california, here i come. right back where i started from.