The best and worst of times

I cannot provide a comprehensive report of my summer in one blog post. So here are the main points:

Although I never found a full-time job, I have more than enough freelance to live as a full-time, 100% remote freelancer. So this is my current job, and I have no plans to change this.

I have decided to move to Tennessee. I went to visit my aunt while on my way to Ohio to see Cincinnati*, and ended up staying for almost a month. I am back in Texas now, but only for a few weeks.

I have a lodger now. He has advanced cystic fibrosis but is the best rescue volunteer that the cat group has ever had. I felt 100% safe leaving him to watch the cats when I was gone.

Cincinnati turned out to be a sadistic narcissist. (I'll need to fix his entry in The Usual Suspects.) It was like he were two different people: Romantic Instagram Cincy, and Cold, Ghosting Cincy. I even met another woman who went through the same crap. We shared our Cincinnati intel, then we both dumped him within the same week. He's scared of us now and I like this.

In closing, here is my current life philosophy courtesy of Fredrich Nietzsche:

“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!”