And then I'll be driving a U-haul to Baltimore. Since getting the news about being laid off at the paper, my plans for the future have come together so well for me. Conveniently, Reggie wants to move back to DC, so we're just swapping rooms. No hassle of searching for a place, and I get to live with people I know and like. And I got a new job almost as easily, working for Baltimore's equivalent of the paper I work for in DC. The only thing that sucks is that I need to stay at the DC City Paper until the 17th in order to get my severance and bonus, and I'll be dividing my time between the two papers, commuting back and forth until then. Anyway, I'm in a nice house in a nice neighborhood, just a few blocks from work, and Josh is only another block away. Plus I've met some cool people that I didn't know before or wasn't well acquainted with. And the more I learn about Baltimore, the more I feel like I'll really enjoy my time there. The new job has been good so far, and everyone has made me feel very welcome -- smooth transition. We work our asses off, but we're rewarded by having Wednesday off in addition to the weekend, and we're guaranteed 40 hours of pay, even if we work less than that. And if we work over-time, we get that too. So it's actually better than salary. I'm still comtemplating exactly how I want to spend this next chapter of my life, but I feel like I'll now be much more enabled to do what I want in a place that feels more like home than DC. I've always thought of fall as a great time to move too. The cool crispness of the air is stimulating, and there's always a string of social events happening between early fall and the new year. I feel very lucky.