I’ve been spending a lot of time with one certain friend lately. I really appreciate all of the help she’s been giving me. Since I can’t drive right now it’s been great that she’s willing to pick me up, take me places and get me out of my apartment, but I’m also feeling like I need a little break from her. If I spend too much time with someone they start to get on my nerves and I’m starting to feel that way. As much as I appreciate all the help, I also feel that I could use a little space for a bit. I kind of feel like going to my parents for a couple days to get out of the twin cities and my apartment. I could use a break from this space. I’ve been back for over 2 weeks now and a change of scenery would be appreciated.

I want to be a writer. I think I’ve mentioned this before, but it’s been on my mind more lately so I guess it’s worth repeating. I’ve had this idea that it would be really awesome to fly somewhere like Thailand or Indonesia and explore and travel, but also write and just live. If I could leverage the dollar and live on $1000/month (I’m not sure if that’s possible or not) I could live somewhere for a year on not that much money. That would give me time to do something creative – like try writing a book. Or writing something. I realize I could write a book here, but the idea of being far away and in an exotic place really appeals to me. I’ve sort of just thrown that out into the ether and if I get the opportunity to make it a reality at some point I’m going to jump at it. If not, oh well. We’ll see if it ever pans out. I’ve been thinking about it more lately. Most likely because everything in the near future is pretty up in the air. I’m not really sure what I’ll be doing for work in a few months or where I’ll be living. I hope it’s Chicago, but there’s a lot of things that need to happen before that. One of which is finding a job in Chicago. That’s going to be the focus of this week. Searching and applying for jobs in Chicago.