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[melannen]

I walked down to the drawbridge tonight to watch the Wednesday sailboat races come in at sunset, and oh my god, you guys, it is *so* pretty here. With the perfect weather we've been having I've actually been getting out and about like I've claimed I wanted to, and it is so pretty, and there's so many places I can walk to, and yes.

I realized today that if you told my ten-years-ago self that ten years from then I would be living in Annapolis, a ten-minute walk from the Bay, in a tidy little 80-year-old-cottage with morning glory and wild roses, without a car because I don't need one, rooming with four excellent cats, more books than I could read in a lifetime, and two dear, geeky friends who I work on a webcomic with, ten-years-ago me would say "Wait, you mean I get *exactly* the life I want? How'd I manage that?"

(Ten-years-ago-me would be equally unconcerned about the lack of any visible means of support. Perhaps that is something the two of us should work on together.)

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[stellar_dust [journalfen.net]]

Perhaps that is something the two of us should work on together.

Thank you, you almost made me SNORT COFFEE.

[melannen [journalfen.net]]

You're welcome! (Have you seen Kate Beaton's Conversations With A Younger Self (http://www.katebeaton.com/Site/Conversations_With_A_Younger_Self.html)? I'm not too enthusiastic about her stuff, but it's gone near-viral several times now.)

[isiscolo [journalfen.net]]

Oh, hee, I used to watch the races all the time, when I lived on my boat - we were at Petrini's, just inside the drawbridge. (Are they still there? They were the most ramshackle slum of a marina ever.)

I frequently realize that at any point in my life, if you had asked me what I would be doing in ten years, I would have been wrong.

[melannen [journalfen.net]]

I don't know! I should go actually look at marina names next time I'm down there. (It does look immediately less Bristol fashion once you go under the bridge, though, I did notice.)

If you asked me at any point in the last ten years or so what I would be doing in ten years, I would have said "I have no clue." Which would have been utterly correct! I still have no clue.