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It's been so damn beautiful out, and I'm f*#@!ng sick. At least snow is coming...tomorrow :)

(OK, Portland - you can do this! Drive slowly if at all, it takes a long time to turn, slow, or stop on snowy roads. Shovel the snow on your sidewalk, stairs, etc. right after it falls, because it's supposed to turn to freezing rain on Thursday, and that'll...
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So, here I am in a city many times the population that which I am used to, living with my girlfriend for the first time in years (2), and even just having finished my first OK Cupid date (with a poly couple) and after having seen a friend from Juneau for tea earlier in the day...and I'm overwhelmed by how alone I am. Surrounded by...
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I don't have any pictures of my face on SG because I used to have a politically- sensitive job, and I wanted to post honest thoughts without fear of my identity being discovered...but now my circumstances have changed, and I want to finally own myself, and my beliefs. So I will be editing or deleting certain posts in the coming days so as to prepare...
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troop49:
After searching high and low, it appears that the personally-identifiable descriptions of/comments about others that I made were all somehow deleted when the format changed in October...which is actually a good thing. Now I don't have to delete or change anything, because someone else deleted it for me! (quiet yay)
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Last week I moved from my hometown in Alaska to Portland, OR, where I will be living a completely different life. I am no longer a professional, at the top of my game. I am now yet another unemployed land use and transportation planner in a city that has already been planned and constructed to a magnificent degree, and which really doesn't need my help....
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teiresias:
Hope it works out...moving is a bitch, and frustratingly disconcerting. But you have a partner, so that should lessen the impact. GOOD LUCK!
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Shitballs. Where did the winter go? I kind of feel like I've been on some kind of crazy emotional roller coaster through a fog bank, moving utterly too fast and yet feeling like I'm not getting anywhere. Until the clouds part and I realize I don't really have any clue where I am, but I'm not where I was...

I'm finally about to get back...
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