THIS IS THE REAL WORLD

this is the real world.

since my last entry i have done a lot of things, but most importantly, i have obtained a good job and settled down in a house in a new country with a native that i love, flatmates that i tolerate and plenty of beer. to be honest with you, i'm feeling really proud of myself, though it has been a wild, intermittently thrilling and terrifying roller-coaster ride to get to this point.  this life was a dream that was once so far away it was laughable.  now i am living it.

during the interim between then and now, i've felt a lot of things as well.  i felt my identity slipping away, things that i thought defined "me" were suddenly gone, or so unimportant; being replaced by my new life, and this new person in it.  now, it has come back, and i feel like myself again; but with something more, a little of this person's personality, beliefs and lifestyle have mixed with my own, and it's great.  i feel more complete than i ever have, and more content than i ever dreamed i could.

it is nice to be back on the internet, i missed it here, but i needed the break.  if anyone still watches this account, thanks for sticking with me for so long.