This will change everything

It has been well over a year since I’ve last posted on this site and a lot has happened. I by no means plan on updating this blog with all that has happened, nor do I believe it would be all too interesting. Instead, I would like to focus on what is happening now…on what is new.

My wife, Allison, and I recent moved to an area of Norfolk called Ghent. We’re renting the third floor of a beautiful house in a beautiful neighborhood and have turned the 1,300 square feet of space into a home for both us and our three year-old French bulldog, Sully.

I should probably stop for a moment and mention that I have no recollection as to what I’ve written on here previously, so from here on out I’ll just assume that everything is new.

I like to think that my tastes in things are a bit eclectic. My major in college started out in biology and ended with me successfully completing a degree in animation…with stops at accounting and computer science along the way. Now I find myself working on a master’s degree in journalism and loving every minute of it.

I work in the IT department of the university that I received my animation degree from and am lucky enough to be able to take two grad classes per year for more or less nothing because of my job. However, I find myself wishing for a different job and hoping to receive my master’s degree from a different school. While I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to take these classes at such a discounted rate, I loath my environment…well, most of it.

I moved to Virginia when I was 10-years-old so my father could go to the same university that I did and have lived in the same zip code ever since. That is, until this past weekend. Allison (my wife), Sully and myself moved out of Virginia Beach and into Norfolk! We’ve been here less than a week and already feel so much more at home than we ever did in Virginia Beach. We will take Sully on walks and random strangers will walk by, say good morning and smile. There is an actual sense of community and a feeling of belonging to that community that in my 26 years I have never felt.

Everything just seems right in the world.

Until next time,

Mike