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Jan. 20th, 2011 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumI was planning to announce this earlier in the week, but events overtook me.
This summer I am going to be moving. To New Jersey.ladymondegreen and I have been building a pretty serious relationship, and we both realised we were unhappy with the amount of country between us. Looking at the logistics, there was no way she could move out here.
I, at the moment, have a slightly more portable life. The greater portion of my income comes to me no matter where I live, because I get paid for breathing. I can go to school anyplace which has an acceptable OT program, and there are several int the New York area.
Add all the other factors, and the math was pretty easy to do. The timing, well that's school driven. The VA owes me Vocational Rebab (not for the broken leg, but for the Reiter's). If I start a program, they aren't going to let me transfer, so that would mean she (andakawil would have to move out here, if we were going to live together.
That's a lot harder move. They have a lot more stuff. They would both need to find work out here. A place suitable for all of us would have to be found.
So the solution, once the problems were dragged out into the light, was obvious.
Breaking my ankle may change some of the fine details, but the overall shape of it is already planned.
It's a big decision, but it's mostly the issue of distance. If it were here to LA, it would have been a no-brainer, and the long conversations, etc. needed to make it would have been almost trivial. But she's not, so it wasn't.
There are things which don't change because it's me moving east, instead of them moving west. A house is being procured; and then they have to move. I have to pack my stuff, and arrange to have it shipped. I can probably move to a Sur la Table in New York. At the very least I can probably get a gig teaching knife skills. I'll have to enroll in a school there, to get the damned math class I need to transfer. I'll have to get the Voc Rehab authorized.
I'll have to get into a school.
But all of those are solvable, and if I can't get into an OT program, I'll find something else.
The important thing... it's what we want. Leaning out to catch the brass ring is always exciting, and that's what we're doing.
This summer I am going to be moving. To New Jersey.
ladymondegreen and I have been building a pretty serious relationship, and we both realised we were unhappy with the amount of country between us. Looking at the logistics, there was no way she could move out here.I, at the moment, have a slightly more portable life. The greater portion of my income comes to me no matter where I live, because I get paid for breathing. I can go to school anyplace which has an acceptable OT program, and there are several int the New York area.
Add all the other factors, and the math was pretty easy to do. The timing, well that's school driven. The VA owes me Vocational Rebab (not for the broken leg, but for the Reiter's). If I start a program, they aren't going to let me transfer, so that would mean she (and
akawil would have to move out here, if we were going to live together.That's a lot harder move. They have a lot more stuff. They would both need to find work out here. A place suitable for all of us would have to be found.
So the solution, once the problems were dragged out into the light, was obvious.
Breaking my ankle may change some of the fine details, but the overall shape of it is already planned.
It's a big decision, but it's mostly the issue of distance. If it were here to LA, it would have been a no-brainer, and the long conversations, etc. needed to make it would have been almost trivial. But she's not, so it wasn't.
There are things which don't change because it's me moving east, instead of them moving west. A house is being procured; and then they have to move. I have to pack my stuff, and arrange to have it shipped. I can probably move to a Sur la Table in New York. At the very least I can probably get a gig teaching knife skills. I'll have to enroll in a school there, to get the damned math class I need to transfer. I'll have to get the Voc Rehab authorized.
I'll have to get into a school.
But all of those are solvable, and if I can't get into an OT program, I'll find something else.
The important thing... it's what we want. Leaning out to catch the brass ring is always exciting, and that's what we're doing.
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Date: 2011-01-22 06:47 am (UTC)But yeesh, I was hoping to spend some more time with you!
(Which part of NJ? I used to live in north Jersey, and I worked in south Jersey for a while -- and know it well, since I spent about 20 years living in and near Philadelphia.)
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Date: 2011-01-22 06:52 am (UTC)I was born in Pittsburgh, BTW.