Last week I got a job offer to work at BlueStripe Software in Durham, N.C. (official title: Product Manager; effective role: interaction designer focusing first on user research and requirements definition). I start on the 22nd. Looking forward to that.
I found a townhouse to rent within walking distance of the office and a shopping center with a Harris Teeter grocery store and nice gym and pretty decent Japanese/Thai restaurant. I'm very happy I won't need to drive most days (at least until we outgrow the office).
So I've been busy with details getting the moving taken care of, shopping for furniture, arranging utilities, and all that.
And again, as of Tuesday, my long sabbatical will be over and I'll be home-ful and re-employed again. Yay!
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Happy 2008!
I hope 2008 is a year in which you find yourself and those around you becoming happier and happier.
2008 started for me at a retreat just outside of Santa Fe, the highlights of which were a New Year's Eve midnight sweat lodge (with snow on the ground, bright clear stars in the sky, and the air a cold 5 degres Fahrenheit). On New Year's Day, we went to the New Year's dances at the Santo Domingo Pueblo south of Santa Fe, which was mesmerising and beautiful as hundreds of singers and dancers danced corn dances on the plaza.
The rest of December before that was pleasant, with a return to my mother's in Burlington, Vermont for Christmas Eve dinner at the neighbors' (with the 7-ish granddaughter the center of attention) and Christmas day at mom's.
Heading back to my mom's, I got to spend more time with friends outside of Washington, D.C. and go to the moving Holocaust Memorial Museum. Then I visited a friend in Philadelphia and finally went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art up on its little hill. The last little highlight before Christmas was getting caught on an icy road, slowing down but not enough in time, and needing to get towed off the shoulder. Getting onto the shoulder is excitement I'd rather not repeat on open public roads again. (Fortunately, there were few other cars out and NY State Park Police and then the tow truck came quickly, and the local Ford dealership was able to take care of ice-caused damage promptly. And now I have even more systems in my car replaced -- there's not much left to replace but the transmission.)
After Christmas, I drove back down to Raleigh (for $500+ cheaper air fare to Albuquerque), visited more people in Raleigh who I hadn't seen in years, visited my brother and saw his new land in rural Virginia, and saw my aunt and uncle and a cousin and his family in Philadelphia. I'm pretty sure it's been over ten years since I'd seen them, and it was great to see them and meet my cousin's middle- and high-school age daughters.
Now I'm back in Hanover again catching up on mail and bills and accounts and stuff, visiting people, and getting ready to head down to New York this weekend for a bit of museums, opera and an Improv Everywhere scene on the subway (No Pants 2k8). I expect it'll be fun!
2008 started for me at a retreat just outside of Santa Fe, the highlights of which were a New Year's Eve midnight sweat lodge (with snow on the ground, bright clear stars in the sky, and the air a cold 5 degres Fahrenheit). On New Year's Day, we went to the New Year's dances at the Santo Domingo Pueblo south of Santa Fe, which was mesmerising and beautiful as hundreds of singers and dancers danced corn dances on the plaza.
The rest of December before that was pleasant, with a return to my mother's in Burlington, Vermont for Christmas Eve dinner at the neighbors' (with the 7-ish granddaughter the center of attention) and Christmas day at mom's.
Heading back to my mom's, I got to spend more time with friends outside of Washington, D.C. and go to the moving Holocaust Memorial Museum. Then I visited a friend in Philadelphia and finally went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art up on its little hill. The last little highlight before Christmas was getting caught on an icy road, slowing down but not enough in time, and needing to get towed off the shoulder. Getting onto the shoulder is excitement I'd rather not repeat on open public roads again. (Fortunately, there were few other cars out and NY State Park Police and then the tow truck came quickly, and the local Ford dealership was able to take care of ice-caused damage promptly. And now I have even more systems in my car replaced -- there's not much left to replace but the transmission
After Christmas, I drove back down to Raleigh (for $500+ cheaper air fare to Albuquerque), visited more people in Raleigh who I hadn't seen in years, visited my brother and saw his new land in rural Virginia, and saw my aunt and uncle and a cousin and his family in Philadelphia. I'm pretty sure it's been over ten years since I'd seen them, and it was great to see them and meet my cousin's middle- and high-school age daughters.
Now I'm back in Hanover again catching up on mail and bills and accounts and stuff, visiting people, and getting ready to head down to New York this weekend for a bit of museums, opera and an Improv Everywhere scene on the subway (No Pants 2k8). I expect it'll be fun!
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