Hi Everyone,
Okay, the new blog is up if not yet running. Email me and I will send you the link. After that you can officially discard this bookmark, because I'm going to shut down this site completely once I've archived the entries I want to keep.
The more that I think about it the less I want my life - personal or not - plastered on some corner of the Internet, regardless of how few people read it.
It's not that I want more attention on this thing - I've been blogging to an audience of probably about four for months now. I just see little point in maintaining a blog that basically only serves as one of those lets-stay-in-touch things when we already have facebook, which serves that purpose extremely well. Family has enough contact with me to not need a blog to read, and for those who only want to pop in and say hello, I see no reason why an email isn't a perfectly good (and far easier) alternative.
What I need is a way to exchange information with people - like links to interesting websites or articles, pictures, my comments on the goings-on in the world, etc - not broadcast my ho-hum do-nothings. Until I figure out how to do that, this blog is on official hiatus. If I do decide to continue anything resembling a blog, it will be under a new address with a completely different purpose and layout, and I will distribute the link to all interested via email. I just know that I am no longer comfortable with the fact that a Google search on me produces something that details my personal or current pursuits. Facebook is big-brother enough as it is.
I've been DYING to post about this for almost a week now but I wanted to hold off until the decision was final and everything was signed. In summary:
I got offered a job at Fluke. And I accepted it. And I am so unbelievably stoked.
I'm still having a hard time wrapping my brain around the fact that this is now my JOB - in some corner of my mind it always just seemed like graduation would happen and then the world would promptly stop turning as life as I knew it came to an abrupt end. But now I move into a new chapter, one that promises to be even more exciting and filled with far more big milestones.
It's interesting to look back on the whole process and really see God's hand in it, how it all fell into place the way that it did. I'm so grateful that things have turned out the way they have - and I am so happy that I get to move back to Washington and start my career there. There is a whole lotta life coming up in the next two to three years, and I'm excited to see what's in store.
Today was the first day, having secured my bus pass yesterday, that I was able to take the bus to campus instead of drive. And I really only have one thing to say about it.
Wow.
I am very fortunate in that the bus takes me almost from the door of my condo all the way to the west edge of campus. I got on the bus at 8:15 and 15 minutes later and one changeover, I was on campus. That was actually FASTER than driving, if you can believe that. Even better, it was FREE and AIR CONDITIONED. I had to walk far, far less distance out in the excruciating heat than I do when I have to drive. That alone was a good reason to take the bus.
The one thing that sucked was that I had to stand the whole way inside the bus, which is never very comfortable because you're flying all over the place - but the air conditioning made up for it. Plus, this new bus-commute of mine will double as the perfect time to catch up on the podcasts that I never seem to have time to listen to because they demand my undivided attention.
This is going to save me SO much on gas this semester.
