2003

The calendar shows it’s a new year, but it doesn’t feel like it yet. Last year at this time I quit my job, and this year I think I’ll do the same. I’ve been living off freelance design work for exactly one year, and I think I need to stop. I need to work with people, on something larger than I can do myself, on something outside of the place where I sleep.

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Freeze-O-Ween went well in Kalamazoo, and it was great to see Josh and Bill again. They’ll be heading across their respective oceans soon, teaching English to the natives. I had a lot of fun with everyone, and dressing up as the Royal Tenebaums was a genius move. It’s bitter-sweet though, with the bitter coming only now that I’m back. Chicago feels like home now, and Kalamazoo gives me strange and mixed emotions. I miss the days when I didn’t analyze my life so much; I just lived. I was really happy to see everyone though. Meredith and I will be having a party later this month; I hope you all can come.

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Photos from Freeze-O-Ween