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So, Some Stuff Is Happening
Three Things (The Exciting New Summer Edition!):
1. With graduation behind me, California and I have parted ways for the immediate future. I will miss you, Palo Alto, with your beautiful weather and your public transportation and your proximity to San Francisco and of course, your insanely expensive everything. For the time being, I'm back in New Mexico - I decided earlier in the year that I wanted to live a little closer to my family while I'm getting started on the real grown-up career thing, and it's not like I dislike it here, even if I miss San Francisco a lot already. My dad is letting me stay with him (rent-free, although I did offer to do all the cooking again) until I find a job, and then hopefully I'll get my own place in Albuquerque. I don't know, the whole thing is kind of terrifying and mind-boggling still.
2. I semi-accidentally came out to my dad during our road trip home from California. I swear I was not planning to do this! I had wanted to leave it alone until some ill-defined point in the future (maybe when I was actually dating someone?), but...he provided me as good a conversational in as I was probably ever going to get, and I thought, why not now? And explained to him that while I might be bringing home boyfriends for him to meet and/or intimidate, I might also be bringing home people who aren't boyfriends. He was actually pretty cool about it - he basically said that he didn't care whether I dated guys or girls as long as I didn't date jerks. Honestly, I don't think he was terribly surprised. Which is good, because if he had taken it badly that would have been an incredibly awkward 300 miles. And now I am out to both my parents with pretty much no drama at all.
3. I possibly have a job! Doing tech writing for one of my dad's clients, some kind of engineering company. It's only a temp - they need someone for about a month to assist their primary writer with a big project, or getting caught up on their backlog or something - but it's a full-time position for a really good hourly rate, and it would a) keep me busy and earning money while I look for something a little more permanent and b) get me a little more experience and possibly some contacts in the field. So pretty neat! My dad's taking me down there tomorrow afternoon to talk to some people, we'll see how it goes.
3a. Aside from the job interview thing, my most ambitious plans for this weekend are still getting caught up on Doctor Who (omg so far behind I fail) and starting a new quest chain in DDO. I'm going to enjoy my brief post-grad opportunity to be lazy and useless for as long as it lasts.
1. With graduation behind me, California and I have parted ways for the immediate future. I will miss you, Palo Alto, with your beautiful weather and your public transportation and your proximity to San Francisco and of course, your insanely expensive everything. For the time being, I'm back in New Mexico - I decided earlier in the year that I wanted to live a little closer to my family while I'm getting started on the real grown-up career thing, and it's not like I dislike it here, even if I miss San Francisco a lot already. My dad is letting me stay with him (rent-free, although I did offer to do all the cooking again) until I find a job, and then hopefully I'll get my own place in Albuquerque. I don't know, the whole thing is kind of terrifying and mind-boggling still.
2. I semi-accidentally came out to my dad during our road trip home from California. I swear I was not planning to do this! I had wanted to leave it alone until some ill-defined point in the future (maybe when I was actually dating someone?), but...he provided me as good a conversational in as I was probably ever going to get, and I thought, why not now? And explained to him that while I might be bringing home boyfriends for him to meet and/or intimidate, I might also be bringing home people who aren't boyfriends. He was actually pretty cool about it - he basically said that he didn't care whether I dated guys or girls as long as I didn't date jerks. Honestly, I don't think he was terribly surprised. Which is good, because if he had taken it badly that would have been an incredibly awkward 300 miles. And now I am out to both my parents with pretty much no drama at all.
3. I possibly have a job! Doing tech writing for one of my dad's clients, some kind of engineering company. It's only a temp - they need someone for about a month to assist their primary writer with a big project, or getting caught up on their backlog or something - but it's a full-time position for a really good hourly rate, and it would a) keep me busy and earning money while I look for something a little more permanent and b) get me a little more experience and possibly some contacts in the field. So pretty neat! My dad's taking me down there tomorrow afternoon to talk to some people, we'll see how it goes.
3a. Aside from the job interview thing, my most ambitious plans for this weekend are still getting caught up on Doctor Who (omg so far behind I fail) and starting a new quest chain in DDO. I'm going to enjoy my brief post-grad opportunity to be lazy and useless for as long as it lasts.