An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
I am moving to the US Virgin Islands
Picture it: Your frustrated with your current job, your original goals for moving to Los Angeles are slumping and you haven’t got a clue what you are going to do to change things up. Your going through each days’ routine as if you were being pulled by a slow moving rope. Slumping along… waiting for something to click, for a bright idea to hit you, or a new opportunity to arise.
Then suddenly someone (actually a good friend) suggest “why don’t you move to St. Thomas and help Reggy open his restaurant?”
WOW - what an amazing idea you think, that would really be awesome.
But a moment later you quickly dismiss it. I mean quitting your job….moving to an island 4 thousand miles away!? That’s crazy…… right?! You can’t do that, it’s….. it’s ludicrous! Then as suddenly as the idea came it leaves and back to your daily routine you go…
But the idea doesn’t leave, at least not completely… its sitting in the back of your mind. Every moment that passes its like the idea is feeding on your current unhappiness> Is the idea exacerbating your problems, are your problems elevating the idea of leaving? In the end it doesn’t really matter. You’ve reach a moment.. its almost as if your struck by lightening, its an epiphany! Your going to do it! Your young, your healthy, you have nothing holding you down but some stupid bills.. why not go? Why not set out on a new adventure - take control back from your daily routine and take a risk. Yes! Exactly, you’ve decided your going to do it! Your going to move to the US Virgin Islands!
Now… Substitute “I” for “your” and you get the picture… In 11 short days I will be getting on an airplane headed for San Juan Puerto Rico where I’ll connect to a flight that will take me to the US Virgin Island of St. Thomas. For the first leg I will be on TED airlines (operated by United Airlines) and then connecting to a Cape Air flight for the last 30 minutes.
The Cape Air flight is on a Cessna 402C. Which seats two crew and 7 passengers. I could have flown into St. Thomas on a 737 or a 757 but I decided that I wanted to get the full effect of moving to an island that is only 7 miles long by 4 miles wide. Who wants to fly a large jet when you can take a cool trip in a cozy prop plane? HA! not me! The only real draw back however is that I can only bring 70 pounds of luggage with me on the Cessna… not exactly an amount that will be conducive to my move! I am going to try and mail some of my belongs ahead so that there are there when I arrive. I will have to see what options I have at usps.com.
Anyway, if you have ever been to St. Thomas… or hey, if you have ever LIVED there or are planning on moving, I’d love to hear from you… shoot me an email or leave me a comment!
Correction 09/16/06: St. Thomas is 13 miles long, not 7 and 4 miles wide only at its widest. Cheers!
Marielle said,
September 16, 2006 @ 3:12 pm
Rob! Did you know that we have known each other for 4 years! That’s a pretty long time. Too bad you had to move to NY and then LA and now the Virgin Islands. Instead, you should definitely move back to Virginia. Sounds like an exciting oppurtunity though. Good luck!
Sonni said,
September 17, 2006 @ 1:25 am
Robert, fly on the big plane. Buddy Holly Specials are not fun planes to ride in.
Jen said,
September 18, 2006 @ 12:22 pm
Woo hoo, see ya on the other side! I’ll be there on the 30th. Nice blog. I wouldn’t brave that baby plane though!
Melissa-Rae said,
September 19, 2006 @ 8:11 am
Robert,
I can just picture how beautiful it will be and how nice it will be to wake up to that every morning. I’m sure you’ll feel refreshed! This will give you plenty of time to think about what you want, relax, and who knows… maybe (if you want) you’ll even find love 
I think it’s wonderful that you’re are moving, clearing your head and starting over. It takes a lot of guts to get up and move like that.. and how amazing, to the Virigin Islands!! I’m jealous!! Maybe I’ll have to fly out and visit
I think it’s important for any struggling actor in LA to get away, and clear their head. When I first thought of moving back home to Seattle, I was dreading it, I didnt want to at all. I felt like I hadnt given acting a full shot and I felt like I was failing, even though my plan is to move back to LA in February. Talking to my family and true friends, they all agreed that it’s a great idea to move home, stay rent free at my dads and pay off my debt and clear my head so that I can come back out to LA and be focused. I even went through a fase where I didnt know if acting was what I really wanted after all… but now I realize, yes it is, I just lost my way…
Anyways. Good luck to you, Robert! I think this is an amazing opportunity! You will be missed
Melissa-Rae
lindsey said,
September 19, 2006 @ 9:26 am
omg — you’re moving? but i just found you!!! i think it’ll be really good for you though. i wish you all the luck in the world rob! i miss you so much and i hope that we’ll see each other again someday.
lindsey
Cardinal Richelieu said,
September 19, 2006 @ 5:55 pm
hi there!
sounds like you’ve got some exciting changes in your life ahead of you, and I must congratulate you on doing this. It sounds…for lack of a more descriptive word…*awesome*.
Now, you read my blog, huh? Thats pretty amazing, considering I myself started it just a couple of days ago…or was it yesterday?
The days have started to blur into eachother due to late nights…or early mornings.
I’m trying to get a friend to write some ramblings down there, if he wants to, I think it’ll be interesting to see a blog-tool used by more than one person…
Also…is this design a rework of Green Park by Cordobo? If it is, then it’s amazing! I’ve been trying to rework it myself, but the results are mediocre…if event that. (this attempt isn’t on ad-fundum, btw)
Honestly, it’s like seeing what I was trying to do
(you can see my attempt at making it blue on http://fuaorg.uib.no/. Not my own site, but for the student council at my university..I’m also trying to use WP as a sort of regular CMS there)
Simple, yet smart move painting that left container-image. I might try doing something similar.
I notice a few things though: for instance the dark corners of the rounded corners. I suggest fidgeting with the palette transparency of the pictures in whatever image processing program you use. That should remove them…i think…
Another thing is of course the favicon.ico…it kinda stands out, being the original green
Anyway, good luck with the relocation. St.Thomas looks like paradise. I have a small dream of doing something similar one day.
The Cardinal
Cardinal Richelieu said,
September 19, 2006 @ 6:16 pm
HAhaha, I just noticed your comment! didn’t see it before.
Thank you, that made my day (night, really)
The updated today was really easy. It’s a plugin
I found it at http://insomniacsyndicate.net/speak/?page_id=19
However, since we’re using this template, the plugin in its original state will place the updated today banner over where it says “mental dribble”.
Fortunate for us, it’s real easy to change; just open updated-today.php in your favourite notepad and under “function ck_wp_head ()”, you find where it says “left: 0px;”, and change it to “right: 0px;”.
Of course, you will also have to rotate the image 90 degrees clockwise, otherwise it will look *really* stupid
With regards to the calendar, I don’t know, but I looked into it.
Using my favourite mozilla plugin. which I recommend heartily if you use firefox (http://www.iosart.com/firefox/colorzilla/), I see the field is called table#wp-calendar…but I’m sorry to say that’s how far I get…
Where is the calendar? I don’t have one…or at least can’t find it! Is this a plugin you have installed, or was it there when you started?