A lot has happened since I’ve last written here. I’m not sure where to start.
I live with my girlfriend. She and I live in town now and we’re moving to a nice little place in the country near Athens in a few months. The place we have now is great and has a beautiful yard, a nice roommate and three fun little dogs. The place we’re moving to is very large (the closet to our bedroom is larger than our bedroom is now) and has the nicest screened porch for a house its size I’ve ever seen. The house is even a few acres away from the street! I’m very excited about it.
I’ve been bedridden for almost the entirety of 2011. Becky and I spent a few weeks in New York last December and then a few weeks in Florida in February, but since then I’ve done nothing but watch movies, listen to music, play videogames and write. I got a CT scan today to see if I need sinus surgery. Hopefully I won’t need it. I miss being well. I miss playing tennis, being outside, drinking with friends and having a social life. I’m so grateful that I have Becky, Blake and everyone else who I still get to see regardless of being sick, but I miss being able to have fun with my friends and do more besides lay around all day. Becky and I were supposed to spend a month up north this summer between going to New York and visiting Neil in Canada, but now it looks like we won’t be able to go unless my health improves.
I’m thinking of going back to school. I’m very happy with the things I’m writing now but I’m becoming impatient with hoping that I’ll have the financial stability I want from writing and I’m considering studying something where I can make money more reliably. It seems like at this point it’d be silly to abandon movie things but I’m just not sure what to do. My health being poor (even though I’m positive I’ll recover within the year) has made me think about how I’d like to be able to pay for my own things like medical emergencies without having to beg my parents for money because I’m too poor to afford a heart monitor or a CT scan.
On the bright side, it looks like within a few months I’ll be well and resuming normal life. By then I’ll be in a pretty new home, Becky will be well settled in to her new job and I’ll have watched more melodramatic Japanese movies from the 40s than I ever imagined I could.
