I Have No Roots

“I have no roots.” These were the exact words my friend Dawnmarie uttered to me when I told her of my latest craziness. Indeed, the reason for my absence from my blog world is because I made a major life change in a very short time frame and have been going non stop since.

A little over three weeks ago I was offered a great job as a Director’s Assistant at DreamWorks. However, it was not the DreamWorks in LA but the one in Redwood City (just outside San Francisco). I was offered the job on Tuesday and started the following Monday. This meant packing up a bunch of my stuff and essentially moving up north in six days. Oh, what I won’t do for a little change.

Of course, I couldn’t find an apartment over there in such a short time but a friend of mine offered to let me stay with her as long as I needed. Unfortunately, she’s allergic to cats which meant I had to leave mine here in LA by themselves during the week. Talk about guilt!

Basically what this winds down to is the fact I’ve been living up north but having to drive (6 hours) and or fly back and forth between there and LA on the weekends. I was pretty much exhausted after the first three days.

However, there is good news to report as I finally found a place to live and moved in today. Of course, I still have my place in LA that I have to try to rent out or something but I guess I shall take it one day at time.

Despite all the craziness I do love my new job and the people have been great. There’s such a huge difference between the Northern and Southern California mentality. Everyone here is so laid back (we get to dress casual every day! Yeah..) and it just seems a world away from the LA scene.

I’m still focusing on getting my film made (priority numero uno) but in the mean time I get to be where it’s green and pretty and the air is clean (and it helps to have an actual paycheck with benefits)…..

I guess Dawnmarie’s right- I don’t have roots. But I’m still young and now’s the time to do it. Change is good. Following your bliss- even better….