PORTLAND, KIALA IS COMING FOR YOU ALL.
I never get tired of that joke.
I’m leaving for Portland tomorrow! By myself! It’s weird! I’m freaking out! Why are there so many exclamation points today?!!!!!
So yes, tomorrow I leave sunny, homosexual, San Francisco for rainy, homosexual Portland and I’m unbelievably excited. Except for the flying part. I have, not a fear of flying really, but a fear of dying and leaving Dane a widower with two whiny kittens ad a very needy dog. And also plummeting to my death while I try to not pee my pants is sort of upsetting, too.
Anyway, other than that, I can’t wait. I’m staying at The Nines which is Portland’s fancy new hotel above the remodeled Macy’s downtown and I don’t think I have to tell you what the thought of staying several stories above a department store full of new pretty consumer goods and one hundred feet away from Forever 21 is doing to my girl parts right now. They are aflame. AFLAME PEOPLE. My wallet tingles with anticipation and I can smell the J Crew from here. It smells like freedom. And poplin.
And the Nines has plush (their word!) robes and slippers in every room (how do they know my size? Magical!) and those worthless little hair dryers and probably a phone by the toilet because traveling can be hard on the bowelular system and so talking to a loved one while “going” helps I guess? I don’t know. I prefer not to think about that.
I’m going to Portland to see Battlestar Galactica at the Bagdad with my friends and maybe to touch Katee Sackhoff in the hair. And also to have brunch with the ladies of the Brain Trust. And to stay in a hotel and pretend I am famous.
I think I’d better make a list. I might forget to do one or more of these things.
And finally, the big news in the Hesselbee household is that Dane has made the leap to full time freelance web developer thingy. We’re ecstatic. He left Odopod this week – under GREAT terms – and will still be working with them in the future on a contractural basis and helping with the Odopod website that he built. Anyway, this is so exciting for many reasons. Or two reasons. WHATEVER.
1. Dane now has time to work on his own side projects as well as the projects we want to do together – all of the BRILLIANT ideas we have on a daily basis that can never come to fruition because he had to work on someone else’s schedule.
and
2. We are free to leave San Francisco when our lease runs out in the Fall. Yes, this means returning to Portland.
Who’s excited?
Oh! And we are trying to come up with a name for Dane’s business. (Well, my business too. We’ll both be under the same LLC for tax purposes. I suppose I’m his secretary – SEXY – or something.)
Suggestons?
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I don’t know Kiala. It seems to me like peeing your pants is the least of your problems if you’re plummeting to your death.
Just something to think about on the plane ride to Portland.
I’m jealous that you get to see The Lioness and so I think you should buy me a present to make me feel special.
Thank you.
Ooh that’s really exciting news! From personal experience working for yourself is SO much better than working for a company (although what happens when you work for your own company.. hmmm). Advantages of working for yourself: you can do laundry while you work. Wait, why did I think this was a good thing, I’m not sure?
Now I’ve been to Portland (which I know is actually quite weird for a European person, to ONLY have been to OR and WA in the US and nowhere else…) and not to San Fransisco but I always was under the impression that SF was like an uber cool place to live. Why do you like Portland more?
Wait I think I’m doing it all wrong. Comments are to COMMENT and uhh criticise? I’m asking questions, I’ve broken the format!
I like question-comments. And you’re from Europe, what with all of your metric systems and funny plugs — you’re all about breaking the system.
Okay, now I’m doing it.
I’m so excited!
Also, I’ve seen you break a lease, hunny. I’ve seen you do it.
woot! i need to get my ass up there asap before you are gone again and you still best be coming down here this summer, so we can get a double team going before you go.
did that sound right?
either way congrats on all that!
I’m very jealous. Why are you not my friend? Or, rather, why am I never invited to touch the golden mane of Starbuck?
the image of you clickity-clacking away on a typewriter behind a pair of glasses while wearing a tight yet professional-length skirt while dane paces around the room, handwaving and dictating furiously just won’t get out of my head.
ugh. come back to me.
i’m so sad i missed this.
I hear Harrison Ford has been staying at the Nines since early march. Hes filming a new movie in Portland. Too bad you didnt see him.
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