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grazi to amber via dbug for this

i know.  you go to all this trouble to subscribe to my rss feed and what do you get from me? zippo.

dbug says that a website like this is basically a castle in the sand on a large beach. if you are not posting, the tide is coming in.

let me get my bucket and shovel…
home today feeling like crap.  ear hurts.  throat swollen. intermittent coughing.  you know the drill.  and yet in an exhibitionist reflective mood.

i got the berkeley cottage i was hoping to get.  i move out in three weeks.  it is a separate two-story carriage house structure, back in the garden: small bedroom, bath, kitchen upstairs; living room/workspace downstairs.  the space will take some adapting to, but it felt good. incense cottage studio’s progeny in the yippie enclave.
it will be quieter (yes). i will finally be living alone (yes). my shit, my space, my dealio. the commute increase sucks, but i’ve been successfully living it half the week anyway (word).

this will mean a new, though not entirely unfamiliar, scene and nexus. alas, greater distance from most of my friends and the city activities i will likely be interested in.  i am definitely going to look into berkeley carshare, so i have an option of accessing a vehicle.  (on that note, i’ve had some great roadtrips with lemur over the last several months; gotten to enjoy some driving on the open road again.) but, being so close to bart will make my usual city haunts just as accessible.
it’s bittersweet.  i’m excited at the direction this will facilitate, but having grown fond of my present lifestyle, even with all of its’ complications, it is with some sadness that i hand this off.  living here with combi and dbug has been a blast.  they have been great roommates and friends.  i’ve had lots of freedom to do whatever the fuck i have wanted to do.  i could not have asked for a better perch on which to downshift from my divorce.
the increase in distance from friends sucks, but i’m in the city so much for work anyway, it is just as easy for me to hang out here when i want to. between hoop pain and bah i see my friends pretty regularly.  i still plan on participating in both.  i’ll have to think of a clever name for my social commute.

living in berkeley.

i’ll see what i can do to keep you posted.