Pseudo Fab Projection- 2009

Pseudo Fab Projection- 2009
So, it's official.

I will be moving to Chicago on January 2, 2009.

No job(Update: Got one kids! Start date: January 5, 2009! It pays the moving bills!!)

No apartment (Update: Pretty nice apartment!).

But I'm going. Packing up a U-Haul and making that 7-9 hour drive through the line of longitude that makes my blackberry clock go back an hour while I look for a sign to welcome me to the windy city.

And I'm kind of petrified. I know that my sister and I will make it work, and that we'll struggle for a little while until we get on good footing, but it's hard to block out the reality of living in these times and be completely optimistic.

Viacom (MTV, BET, VH1) announced the lay off of 850 employees. And, in the face of financial institutions getting bailed out, bought up and laying off, it is the Viacom lay offs that concern me the most. Because it signifies a laying off of creative minds. Those that think, innovate, inspire, and entertain are being expensed as frivolous.

And here I am, moving to the third larges city in the world, trying to make it in this creative industry.

But, I know we'll be alright. It's my hope that education and talent are going to prevail. And even though I'm sure that there are people out there that write better than me, dress better than me (few and far between, I'm sure) and are better people than me, I'm confident in my abilities.

Stay tuned. I promise this is not the end of my fabulousness...even though I think it will be Pseudo for longer then we initially planned.