The better half has left on a jet plane back east, so I'm here solo (with the two furry little monsters) for eight days, until I, too, fly east to join her and my family for four days of belated Christmas.
Solo and sick. I've been coughing for a week and a half, which means I'm a couple days away from investigating whether I actually have a thing, not just another of the umpteen December colds I've had in my life. The only benefit is that sickness forces me to wake up early and go to bed early, habits I have difficulty embracing when there's no one here to so encourage me.
But this'll be good practice for the upcoming long-distance-relationship stint. I'm prowling for apartments ... we'll soon see if anyone at the new job is in the market for a low-impact roommate. I forgot how much more expensive rent is away from Louisville. Ugh.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Remember me?
Tall, dark, bad at blogging? At your service.
I think that I kept putting off blogging because nothing was really going on. But now something's going on: I got a new job. I'm leaving Horseopolis for South Jersey, to report for the Press of Atlantic City. I start Jan. 20.
No, Holly didn't kick me to the curb. We always figured that the not-really-booming journalism job market meant that once it got reasonably close to the time when she'd begin moving around the country for fourth-year rotations anyway, I should pursue an attractive job in the Philadelphia area, which is where we want to settle. Who knows when the next one would come up?
Well, this job caught my eye, I chatted with the editor, liked what I heard, liked what I saw when I visited, and when they made me an offer today, I took it. I'll try to room with a new colleague or somebody else, or find a cheap studio. And we'll look for a roommate for Holly in Louisville, possibly another med student.
It's an exciting and bittersweet development. Louisville took a few months to grow on me, but I've long since thought of it as home. I enjoy my current job, I have friends and a wonderful home life with my bride-to-be. But I have friends and family back east, I think I'll enjoy my next job immensely, and the long-distance-relationship stint coming up has an end date to it.
So there you go. The blog is back. Discuss.
I think that I kept putting off blogging because nothing was really going on. But now something's going on: I got a new job. I'm leaving Horseopolis for South Jersey, to report for the Press of Atlantic City. I start Jan. 20.
No, Holly didn't kick me to the curb. We always figured that the not-really-booming journalism job market meant that once it got reasonably close to the time when she'd begin moving around the country for fourth-year rotations anyway, I should pursue an attractive job in the Philadelphia area, which is where we want to settle. Who knows when the next one would come up?
Well, this job caught my eye, I chatted with the editor, liked what I heard, liked what I saw when I visited, and when they made me an offer today, I took it. I'll try to room with a new colleague or somebody else, or find a cheap studio. And we'll look for a roommate for Holly in Louisville, possibly another med student.
It's an exciting and bittersweet development. Louisville took a few months to grow on me, but I've long since thought of it as home. I enjoy my current job, I have friends and a wonderful home life with my bride-to-be. But I have friends and family back east, I think I'll enjoy my next job immensely, and the long-distance-relationship stint coming up has an end date to it.
So there you go. The blog is back. Discuss.
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