act II, set change
say that a girl with saltwater in her veins and humidity clouding her brain, goes to alaska. while she's in alaska, she thinks, as she always does, about whether or not she could live there, in the place she is only visiting. she worries that not enough nationally touring musicians come through there, and this is, ridiculously, the only reason she dislikes the city. because everything else is beautiful. even in the rain and far-off fog, from a park bench on the edge of downtown, looking across the mudflats and the inlet, it is beautiful. even through a mild anxiety attack twenty feet from the top of a three thousand-foot mountain, it is all so, so beautiful. before she even returns to florida she is already kissing the palm trees, sand and suburban sprawl away.

i'm moving to alaska, kids. americorps job says i'm in anchorage for a full year starting 15 january 2010. i always hoped i'd do something crazy like this.