Happy New Year. Welcome to 2010 here at evanrose.com. I've just ended a degenerating six week stretch from the beginning of October until the middle of November, a rocky second half of November, an interesting and mind-expanding two weeks in Italy, a lovely but slightly complicated long weekend before Christmas, a Christmas during which, though spent with lovely people, I felt quite alone, and a busy and cathartic (not to mention spur of the moment) trip to Dallas during which I aired and gathered my thoughts and made some headway, with the help of dear friends, in processing everything that's gone on up until now. That's a lot of stuff. I've also looked back on the beginning of the decade (even though the decade didn't technically start until 2001) when I was writing on my old site. If you'd like to catch up with me, take a look at what I was doing ten years ago yesterday and ten years ago tomorrow as well as further before and after. I was, in addition to being a wreck who'd just attempted to quit smoking, a boy who hadn't started his career, hadn't made his move to California, hadn't yet had any significant relationship, who hadn't been through and started what he did in the summer of '03, who hadn't moved to New York, who hadn't become somewhat successful, and who hadn't reached adulthood and found a desire to start the next decade with a clear idea of the really big things he hopes will happen. I certainly didn't see any of *this* in my future then, and of course, I can't even begin to imagine the change I'll look back upon ten years from now. Whatever it is, I'm ready to leave a whole lot of things behind and am excited about what's yet to come.
Speaking of Italy and Dallas, I've put pictures from Rome up on Flickr and am planning on putting up a few from my recent trips upstate and to Dallas and I hope my friends who are suffering from Facebook over-exposure backlash won't mind! As always, I can be kept up with more closely there.