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The Coming Out (or Here we go)

All my bags are packed.
I’m ready to go.

You know that World Wide Jump I’ve been kinda hinting about for the past two yers (or clearly stating)?
It’s happening right now.
Moving to the West Coast this week made me realize all that has happened in the past couple of months, especially before my official coming out to Los Angeles.

When you’re coming out, your family members will react differently.
At first no one believes you.
Once they realize it’s not a dream, some won’t be very understandable (“So you’re really…huh”), others will be more amicable (“You sir have some balls”), and a few might pull out the ‘I knew it’ card (“Ever since you were born, I knew you were gonna come out some day. This is the perfect lifestyle for you.”).
You might even hear someone scream: “OMG! Now you’re SO buying that apartment in Silver Lake!”

This is also the perfect time to have with your friends a Coming Out Fiesta (also known as Going Away Party).
You too will be able to fondly reminisce about the good ol’ times, when you spent all your waking hours in a barely-lit closet, banging out pages in front of a screen.
Be sure to quickly delete all your embarrassing pictures from Facebook before your coming out, or you’ll be acutely aware of them for years to come.

Finally, the one thing you’re bound to hear over and over again is the running-gag “Don’t forget me!”
Bonus points if your stalker adds a LOL or a smiley.
Don’t get me wrong, that’s cute and all, but I sense a vague threat in that sentence.
If you do end up becoming a millionaire, chances are that one of the people who uttered that sentence will come knocking at your door.
People also tend to be pissed for some reason when you don’t actually remember them.
Hey blondie, just because I don’t recall you from that Spanish class ten years ago doesn’t mean I pulled an Eternal Sunshine; my brain is just hard-wired to care about a maximum of 150 people (fact!).

Oh yes, coming out to Los Angeles is no easy task and an experience like no other.
It is difficult to grasp what your life will be like after it, but once you do make that leap of faith, once you make it over that obstacle…
Well.
Here we go.

Link hunting

Happy 4th of July to everyone.
Since I’m pretty busy nowadays, I decided to do what I usually do when I’m not able to post relevant content: link hunting.

We start today with an interesting piece of work entitled Fallen Princesses by Dina Goldstein.

More info (and photographs) in the link.

Lifehacker has a list of “Tips, Projects, and Great Eats for Your Fourth of July Weekend“.
MovieFill talks about a totally different subject, Christian Bale’s roller coaster career.
Charlie Rose talked to another movie professional, Guillermo del Toro:

And finally, Billshrink has posted a fee comparison regarding the costs of various Airline services (bags, wifi, flight-change, etc.).

All in all, great little links…

One Year of My Life 101

One Year of My Life 101

I’ll pretty much be talking about the various experiences from the past year or so.
This will most likely bore you if you’re not Claire Danes…


(who got my reference?)

Anyway, let’s begin with the beginning, or rather the stuff I wrote early on.
Way back when, in July, I made a two-part breakdown of all the Visa types that might interest an international writer (yes Canada included) in search of guidance to work in the U.S., or like I said back then:

The hypothesis that will be used in the breakdown is that you are “a writer in Europe or Canada who wants to be able to work as a writer in the U.S.A. and has no immediate relative there”.

Part One was about all the Non-immigrant Visas, and Part Two was on the various Green Cards.

TV-wise, I interviewed back in April Lost‘s Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.
I also told you all about the important shows in my life, and especially made an article around my love/hate relationship with Battlestar Galactica shortly after its series finale.

I also had some pretty nasty technological problems with my hard-drives. Twice.
But then there was this incredible piece of good news that I (still) can’t share with you given that I don’t want to jinx it (still).
Basically all in all what I called Even Luck.

So much events I live-Twittered, the most recent of which is me attending the 62nd Cannes Film Festival last May told in three different parts.

Earlier this year though I also went to the Jules Verne Festival and also reported live on Twitter at the various events.
There was also a trip to NYC and LA also in early September and I told you all about my magnificent suitcase. Groundbreaking stuff.
Fortunately all the events had Twitpictures included.

Regarding more trivial stuff, I love technology so much I mentioned in September that cool new phone I got (it still is). Yes, the iPhone sucks.

I think we’ve covered all (official) aspects of my pointless life over the past year.
Much better tomorrow, I promise.