PROS

• i would be in california
  • great weather
• only three hours from inbal
• free room & board (save money)
• close to grandma
• yoga (?)
• hiking
• good food (con: my dad's monotonous cooking)
• i could help garden
• i could WWOOF close to home (malibu, ventura, ojai, catalina?)
• could read mom's sunset magazine
  • convince her to get real simple?

CONS

• i would be living with my parents
  • fighting
  • feeling like a failure
• no (less) friends
  • ..really maybe no friends
    • inbal in san luis obispo
    • tim in utah
    • claire in clairmont/boston?
    • everyone else in baltimore/east coast/international
• my dad's monotonous cooking
• isolating
  • physically/locationally
  • emotionally
• slowly succumbing to boredom/aggressive habits of my family
• i would have to repaint my room because i cannot live in a room where the walls are best suited to a 13 year old nerdy boy (painted like the sky, going from light to dark blue with hundreds of glow in the dark stars)
• rattlesnakes
  • constant fear of rattlesnakes, especially when i am hiking alone
• maybe the biggest con yet (besides the friends thing): no (??!) dancing