I decided today that i need to be in the city. Not that I hadn't already decided that, but today it is for certain. Two main things sparked this:

1. I was on campus for the first time in a long time and was surrounded by people sort of my own age. You don't get that in the burbs. I want to be at least semi-closer to my school and to that feeling of walking around your campus.

2. JoeJoe signed himself a lease in Lincoln Park. So I'll actually have a friend here.

Now, to find a job to pay for it...

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I started school again tonight. Only three courses till I have my masters! It was a personal essay class, my third essay class with this particular professor. She is probably one of my favorite teachers that I've ever had and creative nonfiction is the area of writing I am most concentrated on. I sometimes think of ditching my novel in progress and turning it into a memoir. Not in the James Frey sort of way. I mean taking out all the fiction and solely writing what went on in my life, not just passing it off as truth as is. I don't think I could make it work though. My fictional alter ego will have to live on.