Q&A II Part Two: The Last 10 Years
Nov. 24th, 2003 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantryslutHow did I end up in Oakland? When last ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maliceangst knew me, I had just graduated from college, then moved to Chicago. I lived there for five years with imnotandrei. Sometime or other in those five years I made a trip out to the SF Bay Area and loved it. I made the boy visit, too, and then had him hunt for jobs in the area that would pay relocation. This was around 1995-1996, mostly pre-boom, but things were revving up, and he worked as a UNIX sysadmin, so it wasn't much of a stretch to expect someone to bite. He found a job after about a year of looking, and they packed us up and moved us out to the Lower Haight, where I moved in with two old college friends of mine, in a slumlord-owned Victorian flat.
Five years after that, I bought a house in Bernal Heights with two other old friends of mine from Chicago. We had a falling out and sold our share. We moved to Oakland just this fall.imnotandrei is unemployed and looking for a job, I'm freelancing as a writer/editor/proofreader/windowcleaner/whatever -- pay me and I'll do it. We're currently living off our profit from selling the house.
In the meantime, we've adopted three cats and I've kinda carved out a career in publishing-related fields. I totally missed out on any of the dot-com riches, even transiently. But I did edit two anthologies, and I've sold a whole mess of fiction, and hey, I get to work at home and write about music and porn and stuff for a living, and my name is plastered all over the Internet. I'm pretty happy, actually, and I will be ecstatic once I figure out this finances stuff.
I've also done a lot of queer and gender and kink and sex-positive activism and advocacy stuff. Nothing particularly noteworthy aside from making a brief appearance in a Newsweek cover article a few years back.
Hey, maybe I'll throw together a highlights reel for you in the next post. "Lori: A Decade of Excellence."
maliceangst knew me, I had just graduated from college, then moved to Chicago. I lived there for five years with imnotandrei. Sometime or other in those five years I made a trip out to the SF Bay Area and loved it. I made the boy visit, too, and then had him hunt for jobs in the area that would pay relocation. This was around 1995-1996, mostly pre-boom, but things were revving up, and he worked as a UNIX sysadmin, so it wasn't much of a stretch to expect someone to bite. He found a job after about a year of looking, and they packed us up and moved us out to the Lower Haight, where I moved in with two old college friends of mine, in a slumlord-owned Victorian flat.Five years after that, I bought a house in Bernal Heights with two other old friends of mine from Chicago. We had a falling out and sold our share. We moved to Oakland just this fall.
imnotandrei is unemployed and looking for a job, I'm freelancing as a writer/editor/proofreader/windowcleaner/whatever -- pay me and I'll do it. We're currently living off our profit from selling the house.In the meantime, we've adopted three cats and I've kinda carved out a career in publishing-related fields. I totally missed out on any of the dot-com riches, even transiently. But I did edit two anthologies, and I've sold a whole mess of fiction, and hey, I get to work at home and write about music and porn and stuff for a living, and my name is plastered all over the Internet. I'm pretty happy, actually, and I will be ecstatic once I figure out this finances stuff.
I've also done a lot of queer and gender and kink and sex-positive activism and advocacy stuff. Nothing particularly noteworthy aside from making a brief appearance in a Newsweek cover article a few years back.
Hey, maybe I'll throw together a highlights reel for you in the next post. "Lori: A Decade of Excellence."
