full circle

The e-mails, text messages and phone calls started coming Friday evening, and they continue this morning. "Are you really leaving your job? What happened? Where are you going?"
Those first two are easy to answer. The third one, well, that's something I think we should all ask ourselves every day.

Am I leaving? Yes. While traveling over the Thanksgiving holiday, I had a sort of epiphany reiterating what I've known for a couple of months, that it's time for me to move on. My last day at the magazine is Dec. 15. Incidentally, I gave notice on the one-year anniversary of switching over from The NY Blade, so there was a certain symmetry in the way the whole thing played out.

Why leave now? That's a harder one to answer, but part of it has to do with the inherent cycle of working for a weekly publication. Once you've been around the merry go round once, you start to know what's coming next. If not, you haven't been paying attention.

Where am I going? The BF and I have a lot of travel planned for the next few weeks, time with our families for Christmas, then a long stint in Mexico with some friends over New Year's. After that, I'm going back to full-time freelancing: not only writing, but getting my illustrations out there more. I plan to finally finish a book I've had in the works for almost a year now.
At first glance, 2007 looks to be nothing like the last two years of my life, which is a vaguely terrifying — but also exhilarating — feeling.