DAYS LEFT UNTIL I MOVE INTO MY ROOM IN SEATTLE: 26

Gonna actually be leaving here about a week earlier, though.  Don't know yet if I'm gonna just take that week off or not.  I certainly won't be able to scan and draw things all the time because it is literally a 36 hour drive.  36 hours, folks.  And I saw the first 17 hours' worth of roads as recently as March.  I'm hoping I can cajole my dad into spending a day in Yellowstone, but he is frumpy so who knows.  Also I'm pretty sure that area'd still be in season enough to be a hassle to deal with.  Hopefully enough kids will be back in school that I won't have to deal with SCREAMING SPOILED CHILDREN. 

Anywho, I decided to just rent a room for a month in Seattle instead of trying to get an apartment sight unseen.  Considering how expensive shit in Seattle is and how I would have to rent someplace for a year with nothing to go on but a few pictures and the good word of the landlord... yeah, this is probably for the best.  The house I'm staying in looks super cute.  Only issue is that I will have to move again a month later and then furnish an apartment while I'm doing classes.  It's never been a real issue for me before, but it is a huge pain in the ass.  I'm ready to have my own place to myself so I can set up a real office and such.  

Misgivings aside, I'll be leaving here in about two and a half weeks (!!!!!!!!) and probably won't see Houston again until at least Thanksgiving (!!!!!!!!!!!!!), but considering I went to college 24 hours away from home for four years, that's not really anything worth noting.  It's also a LOOOOOOOT cheaper and easier to fly Seattle-Houston than it is to get out of the country in Pennsylvania, and it's even cheaper to visit my sister in Denver, so perhaps I'll be more mobile in grad school than I was during college.  (For reference--I lived in a town of 10,000 during my undergrad, and the closest towns of greater size were 50 minutes away apiece.  And they only had about 60,000 residents each.  Not the most country place I've ever been by a long shot, but certainly more country than I'm used to staying for four years in).  Also, one of my good friends from high school who was also the lead violinist in my quartet is apparently working for Microsoft nowadays, so maaaaaybe I'll get to hang out with her again.  Oh, and Liz and Joyce will be there.

Anyway that's my once-in-a-blue-moon outpouring of stuff.  I will probably do some more actual blogging-type-stuff once I'm on the road to Seattle, but all the interesting parts of my life for the past year or so have been CONFIDENTIAL due to WEBCOMIC INDUSTRY INTRIGUE.  I'll be glad to have something happening in my life I can actually discuss on the internet without pissing people off.