Some closure.

It looks like all the travel was for naught but fun. I won't be getting a job out of state, and we'll be staying in Atlanta.

I have the chance to get a good-paying long-term temporary job doing graphic design. But why bother? I just don't want to do graphic design anymore, unless the job circumstances are something that would advance my career or life a great deal - like an offer as an art director or something. Where my heart is is fine art, and that is what I will be focusing on once we get settled. I have taken a job with part-time hours as a server with a local dessert/coffee/wine bar that has been around since the late 1970's and has a huge, devoted local following. The potential for tips is supposedly very high in this place and I feel fortunate that the GM is going to give me a chance even though I've never worked as a server before. The hours will be mostly night, and I will have the daylight to paint, do housework and all that. It will reduce our circumstances from when I was working my last job, but it will up them from the last three months. The fact that I am getting interest in my art via the Yessy site is extremely encouraging to make this move, too.

We found a killer, huge apartment in the Virginia Highlands/Morningside area which will reduce our monthly rent by nearly $400. We consider ourselves quite lucky in this because "Va-Hi" is normally very, VERY expensive even for rentals. The neighborhood isn't snotty, though - it's just affluently artsy. The apartment has a huge lving room with a wall of north-facing floor-to-ceiling windows and French doors looking out into a large backyard with lots of trees around the perimeter. I am going to put out a lot of flowers and plants on the patio and set up my work space just inside to take advantage of the north light and nice view. It's a circumstance that is vastly superior to the ghetto-concrete atmosphere of our current loft apartment (I love the apartment itself, but I don't love the neighborhood surroundings so much.)

Sorry to bore everyone with all my personal-life rambling; but now that I'm no longer actively looking for work, I can probably start being provocative again. ;) That might not happen until we're totally settled in the new place, though.

Comments

[Wendy]

Congrats on the new apt. My parents lived in Va-Hi in the early 60s before I was born. At least you got to see Montana! Where I stayed was halfway between Missoula and Glacier Park, in the mountains. One of the most beautiful, spiritual places I've ever been! But, at least now you won't have to be snowed in from October through May every year! ;-)