Something Drastic

I have been wanting to move out of Edwards ever since before I even moved back here after graduating from school last December. This was only supposed to be a temporary transitional thing for me. I thought I would get my ya-ya's out driving a bus for a few months, find something cool to do for the summer, and then have some sort of real-ish job-ish thing lined up for the fall. Well, here we are knocking on Fall's door, I have been driving the bus all summer and I have nothing else lined up for the near future. I have spent lots of time online looking for jobs and internships and such. I have found a few interesting things that I am or will be applying for, but so far no real leads. While it would be ideal to get a cool job lined up before I move somewhere, I am starting to feel like maybe I should just move to a cool city even if I don't have an awesome job already lined up. Even if it means that I just move there and end up having to get some sort of part-time bus driving job or something, maybe it would be better to at least be living somewhere that I enjoy and then trying to find an awesome job once I'm already there.

There are lots of places I think I would possibly enjoy living; NYC, DC, Seattle, Portland, San Fran, Chicago, Denver/Boulder, Boston, maybe the Twin Cities, etc... (not to mention all of the cities outside of the US that I would also like to live in). If I were to choose right this very moment, however, I would probably choose DC because a significant majority of the cool/interesting jobs and internships that I've found online in recent days are located in DC, so I think there would be better chances of me eventually finding a cool work situation there later on. Plus, DC was ranked one of the best cities in the USA for young people in some magazine that I read a few months ago. Plus my aunt and her husband live there and they are cool people. Plus it has a great public transit system, which often correlates directly to how cool a city is. I haven't actually spent any significant time in DC though, so I don't really know for sure if I would actually like it or not. I think there's a good chance that I would like it though.

So yeah, I am halfway seriously considering just packing up my stuff and moving to DC even if I don't have a job already lined up there. I think I might have enough money to scrounge by for like a month or maybe two months with little or no employment before I went broke and had to beg my aunt to let me sleep on her couch. And I suppose even if it took me a little while to get a job that I really felt emotionally invested in, it would still be better to have a ho-hum job and live in DC than to have a ho-hum job and live in Edwards.

So yeah, that's what I'm thinking...