It’s all due to the power and mystery of RSS.

So, with that behind us:

@Sara – You know what they say, Indiana is the Utah of the midwest. No they don’t. No one says that.

@MHH – I’m consistently surprised that people still read this thing. More power to ya. Anyways, I looked at the book on Amazon. It totally looks to be the type that I would read, post snarky comments about on Twitter, but secretly make a few mental notes.

@JJ – I choose to interpret those “hm”s as concern that your transcontinental stalker is going to show up on your front door step with a box of Fran’s chocolates and an already-filled-out Massachusetts marriage application. Unfortunately, the reality is much less “Lifetime original movie”, and more just a train of thought that started back about a year ago (in a conversation with Jason, actually) and continued through several other key conversations and a boyfriend or two … okay one … until I was sitting on the beach when I decided that it might help to write it all down. The result was kind of a mess and not terribly enlightening. I will admit, however, that my trip to the west coast did serve as a catalyst for forcing myself to think about some things that I’d been avoiding for a while.

The moral of this story: existential crises are a waste of energy and blogging is dead. Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s it.

But I’ll say that I’ve had similar realizations in the past. And yet, my most recent ‘quandary’ has been the importance of building my productive/creative/monetarily sustainable life so that the next time I find someone I’d like to share my life with, that won’t be a limiting factor, even if I do think I’d be totally willing to be the stay-at-home dad in my possible (but fantasy?) future relationship. Until such a time may come, I want to be self-sufficient and financially solvent, and I hope to always be ‘anxiously engaged’. So I’m in the quandary of going not where I can meet someone but where I can best establish financial independence… *sigh* :-)