I thought about not posting this, but I decided a few months ago to live my life online, so here we are. If you follow me on Facebook, you’ve already seen most of this, so just indulge me while I update everyone else.

I’m living in Orlando, working a part-time job at a little above minimum wage, which does not pay the bills. I am looking for full time employment, sending off at least one resume a day, and aiming to send off three a day. Friends are working to help me get a full-time gig as well, but the final decision isn’t up to them. I have a deadline of MegaCon to find a job that can pay the bills, and if I don’t, then it’s on the road again, back north to the old stomping grounds in North Carolina.

Please understand that I love Orlando. I don’t want to leave, as I’ve good friends here and it’s incredibly diverse. The creative comics community here is unorganized, but in a state where several people are trying to remedy that. For the first time in years, I’m not only making comics, but selling comics in a small comic shop. I’ve met skeptics, and I’ve met fans of comics as an art form. This is one the best towns I’ve ever lived in, and if I was making enough to pay my bills, I’d be very, very happy.

Those of you in North Carolina, don’t feel offended, but I never got that sense back where I came from. I love my family,and I appreciate the finer points of North Carolina culture, but diversity has never been an issue of importance there, and the creative community has never been able to make up its mind where it wants to go. Comic wise, the great shops get really focused once or twice a year, and don’t acknowledge local artists until their working on a big Marvel or DC book.

So, I’m trying my best to stay here. Everything else except the webcomic is on hold until then.