Oh, jeez, it's been over a year since I last wrote a journal here.  I suppose I ought to write somthing.

I suppose the big news is that I'm leaving "Michigan's great south west" for better pastures;  Portland!  Go West Young man!

I figure, I can be a starving artist there as much as I can be a starving artist here.  I can fail just as easily there as here.  Or succeed, for that matter.

People are telling me right and left to stay, and I've a good many reasons to follow the advice.  But the hand that'd stay me isn't near as strong as the hand that moves me.  

* I feel like I'm not going anywhere with my life right now, and staying sediment won't help that.  

* And there's my twin.  She's out there already, starting to do her thing.  I miss her greatly already.  I'm sure it'd grow easier, but I'd rather it not have to.

* People will say, "you'll go for your sister, but what of your mother?"  Well, she's on the road now more then she's at home.  Besides, when she moved west she gave the explanation that her kids weren't necessarly going to stay in the area anyway.  And it's true.  As for my father, I'll see him on Thanksgiving this year.  It's the first time I'll have seen him in a long time;  It's not a matter for public forum.

* Friends;  Yes, I've got a few friends in Michigan, but most of them I seldom see anymore and at least one of them is contemplating joining the Exodus.  The majority of my friends here I see online more often then in person.  Those hours I don't intend to lessen.

* "What about your College?  You've got to be getting close to graduation!"  I've got another 2 years of full time, summer, fall, winter spring class load.  Besides which, I hate computer science.  Do you know how long my desktop has been so much junk metal?  I've lived with a slow, crippled laptop and a serial terminal to a slower, more crippled server.  And I've been surviving.  I finished my last CS class at the begining of summer, and I'm happy not to be taking more now.  I haven't given up on them compleatly, I'm just learning things on my own, in my own way.  
(Note:  I have recently gotten my desktop working again)

* "Yes, okay.  But Portland?"  Well, if it wasn't for Portland, it'd be Eastern Michigan.  I was planing to move from here anyway come Christmas.  It would have meant, for me, equivalent distance to everyone I know except Kris and now that my twin's out there, much, much further from her.  

Okay, no more justifications... !!!.  That's Three Exclamation Marks.  That's really excited.  I mean "That's really excited!!!"  See the exclamation marks?  That just proves it!

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(Add a rant to whatever I said above, this time about "graphical simleys" and how they need to be banned from everything)