Laying down my head or what will the next few months of my life be like?

Where to live, where to live? Ahh that is the question I am having to make. Do I live in Venice Beach with all that entails? Do I go to Santa Monica where I will be heading in a few months anyway? Do I go into a house with youngings in West Hollywood? Do I go to Culver City where it's about 30 mins from everywhere and is better on the job search (at least in the locale)? Do I stay in a great house in Hollywood? Do I sign a six month lease or go month to month? I would like to just stay there for 3 months.

Wow three months you ask? What is the consequence? Well it does have a consequence. A big one. Location and who I live with can affect my LA life. I could live in Culver City and go to the local bar there and, who knows, meet what could be the love of my life. Or not. I could meet some crazy women who stalks me that I can't wait to get away from. Both drastic cases and not at all likely. But both are possible.

Or I could meet someone that becomes a great friend through someone in Santa Monica. Or hell I could go to a function with someone in Hollywood and get my future job because of where I decided to live.

My life in DC didn't take off till year 3 when I moved into a group house that I got along with everyone and started to really branch out socially. A big reason for that was the people I lived with. All three of them are very good friends of mine to this day. I made the move to another house that also had a big factor and influence on my life and they are all good friend of mine as well. We are the sums of our lives (to steal from Thomas Wolfe) and that sum is because of the decisions we make. Some of major such as where we decided to go to college, what career we go into, what jobs we take, who we love. Other seem minor but who knows are they? Living situation is one that can fall in the middle. If it's bad you shrug it off and move on. No major impact on your life except a bad few months. If it's good it opens a new world. New friend, new memories, new experiences.

One girl told me the success she's had with past random roommates even being in the wedding of the last one. What seemed as inconsequential as an ad in the paper affected her life. She now has a friend for life. One she shared laughs, drinks, and a little bit of herself with. She may of influenced this friend's life in who/when she met her beau and where her life goes from there. She was at a crossroads, a dot in a the road, but because of an ad for an apartment her life could of gone left but it went right.

These are the decisions we wrestle in life and while a part of me is a big believer in the Marylyn Monroe quote that says, "haven't you realized that some of the best decisions in your life have been proceeded by the statement, 'what the hell'", it's what happens after you say that that makes that decision or shows it as a mistake. In the next day I'm going to make a gut decision decided on five minutes of talking to someone and a quick glance of a place not to mention an interpretation of things and I could of easily misread the person. For all purposes it's going to be a pretty rash decision. Now I'm just wondering what the impact of that will be.