Hey, if a haircut works, it works! For me, what spawned everything was the next round of layoffs being announced in my building combined with a lot of drastic changes being done to my zones. That led to a very long conversation with my boyfriend in which I randomly surfed through some grad school programs and found one (ironically not the one I'm going for now) that made me go giddy inside. I pointed it out to him and he urged me to go for it. At the same time, on Facebook, there emerged a community for people looking to get out of the industry and I joined it. Just divorcing myself from what's going on is helping me out a lot, and so does having a plan. It's funny that I'm looking to go back to my first career choice beyond journalist, but I think I have the maturity to handle it now where I didn't when I was an undergrad.
BOYFRIEND! His name is Mike and I actually met him through fanfiction. He wrote me back in the fall of 2005 to tell me how much he loved my work, and he was so shy that I felt compelled to make him talk more. Then we gradually became friends and I realized I was developing a crush on him when I kept comparing the guys I dated to him. I kept trying to discount all the reasons not to fall in love with him: He's almost four years younger than me and he lives in Liverpool being at the top of it. But Mike acts so much older than his age - he's getting his PhD in astrophysics - and is such an adorable teddy bear that I just couldn't help acknowledging that yes I do love him.
It's working out amazingly well. We've been dating for 9 1/2 months now and have spent a week together, then another week in November when he comes out here. We talk a lot, and use our webcams so he sees what I'm doing, etc. For all of my attempts at dating, this has been the most successful. When Mike finishes his PhD next year, we're going to talk about our options - which will most likely be his coming out here until I finish school or he does post-doctorate work until I'm finished. It's rough not being together in person, but I've never felt lonely. I know it'll happen when the time is right, and we make each other extremely happy.
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Date: 2008-08-24 07:14 pm (UTC)BOYFRIEND! His name is Mike and I actually met him through fanfiction. He wrote me back in the fall of 2005 to tell me how much he loved my work, and he was so shy that I felt compelled to make him talk more. Then we gradually became friends and I realized I was developing a crush on him when I kept comparing the guys I dated to him. I kept trying to discount all the reasons not to fall in love with him: He's almost four years younger than me and he lives in Liverpool being at the top of it. But Mike acts so much older than his age - he's getting his PhD in astrophysics - and is such an adorable teddy bear that I just couldn't help acknowledging that yes I do love him.
It's working out amazingly well. We've been dating for 9 1/2 months now and have spent a week together, then another week in November when he comes out here. We talk a lot, and use our webcams so he sees what I'm doing, etc. For all of my attempts at dating, this has been the most successful. When Mike finishes his PhD next year, we're going to talk about our options - which will most likely be his coming out here until I finish school or he does post-doctorate work until I'm finished. It's rough not being together in person, but I've never felt lonely. I know it'll happen when the time is right, and we make each other extremely happy.