Goodbye to all that: Always a New Yorker, just not in the 5 boroughs anymore

It's been over 7 years, and all my cells have regenerated. I am a completely different person from the last post of May 27, 2010. I lived a little over 2 years on West 103rd Street in Manhattan, and am finishing 5 years on Skillman Street in the rapidly-gentrifying-not-for-the-better Bed-Stuy. Brooklyn. I am going back to my folks' in Ewing, NJ and will get a new job from there. When I moved here in 2004, Friends was in its final episodes. I was 30 years old and had a pet bunny named George. I was broke as fuck and had a nasty bitch of a false friend giving me garbage. I miss George. All that other shit is behind me. Sure, I found a lot of other user-losers in my nearly 14 years here, but they came and went as fickle user-losers always do. That's life. I have since founded a theatre company Always Love Lucy Theatre (www.facebook.com/alwayslovelucy) --- 4 classic productions in 3 years. I have modeled and acted and traveled (18 countries since moving here, about 15 states too, many of each are repeats.) Social media exploded during my time here, too. Blogs are obsolete. This post is pretty much for me. I doubt there is anyone reading it. But that is OK. I don't need anyone to read me anymore. I am tired, and I want peace and quiet. I don't want to deal with anymore BS from anyone -- not the unshowered rude punk-ass 22-year-old production assistants on film and TV shoots, not the billionaires and their crazy starving 3rd wives, not the 1% weirdos, no one. I never cared about celebrities, which ironically put me in contact with them a lot. It's just time to change the trajectory. I will always love New York, but New York sure doesn't love me. Ah well. That's life. That's New York. http://juliaallison.com/goodbye-to-all-that-by-joan-didion/