So the big boss decided to let me work from home! This is at once thrilling and scary as hell.

I hope I'm disciplined enough to do this, but I'm pretty sure I am. I plan to have a real home office, and I'll go to it every morning, as if I'm going to work. I'm positive this will be the best strategy. I know that editing in bed or on the couch in front of the TV will not work. But! This job has many, many slow periods. And during the slow periods? I will not be in the home office. During the slow periods, I'm going to the beach. Or the Huntington Library. Or wherever I want. I think it'll be great.

I am going to have to make a real effort to connect with people. I won't have built-in friends at work, so I'll have to start an activity or hobby or something to meet people. I definitely don't want D to be my only friend in L.A. I think I'll take a class. What kind of class? I dunno. But whoo! This is kind of exciting.

I'll still have to drive down to the O.C. once a week. That's part of the plan. I don't mind, though. It'll be good to be around people, and to see my family.

Another good thing is I think I'm going to be able to keep my full-time status. There was a question as to whether or not I'd have to have freelance status, which would be bad for me because I wouldn't have benefits, but I think I'm still going to be able to remain salaried. My boss won't be able to promote me to senior editor, as she was planning if I were to stay in the office; I won't be able to perform the senior editor duties from home. But she's still giving me a raise, she said! Whoo again!

Anyway. This is all good news. I think. Now the living-with-D scariness is the only thing I have to figure out. I am a person who loves her space. I love decorating the way I want to decorate. I like to watch the shows I want to watch (and they rarely are the shows D likes). I have lived alone for 3 years and liked it very much. So...we'll see how this all works out.

I won't be making the move for 2 or 3 months. The Company wants me to stay on for a while, for various reasons. So at least I'll have a while to get used to all of this.

It feels good to take a chance like this, now and then. I'll have to remember that.