Two: I'd like to talk about this before it actually happens, so here we go: I'm moving to Rhode Island in a couple of weeks. Well, technically I'm moving to Syracuse, to my parents' house, but I'm spending up to the first three months of that in Rhode Island to find a job. But the idea, at least, is that I'll find a job and then the move to Rhode Island will be finalized and carried out. Since so far I haven't been able to get such a job through searching from New York State, I'll be staying with Albert's mother and looking in person.
Three: So how do I feel about the move? Excited, and also kind of sad, but mostly it doesn't feel quite real yet. I mean, fifteen days from now I'll have left Binghamton. But work and life have been so full of other things that the past month has really been more about focusing on one day or week at a time. I don't think it'll be real until I've left work; next Friday will be my last day. And then...I'll have to pack in earnest. But I'm hoping to start at least getting my books off the shelves before then.
Four: By the way, I've pretty much come full circle at the job. Having started during the last week of March as the interim maintenance coordinator, I was moved around mid-to-late-June to "special projects" (defined as, "whatever my supervisors wanted done that nobody else really had the time or specialized knowledge to do"), and then even did a stint in September as, essentially, the interim communications coordinator. But the guy they hired in maintenance after me has had to miss a lot of work for a lot of reasons, and last week they went ahead and let him go. So, for the closing two-and-a-halfish weeks of my position, I've been and will be back in maintenance, training my new successor (who's been with the company for a long time and theoretically will be around for a while), although I'm also still helping the new communications coordinator a little bit, too. I'm actually glad to end in maintenance, as (believe it or not) it's my favorite of the three, for various reasons I won't go into here. It'll be really tempting to log into Field Force, of a quiet day in Rhode Island, and see what Ben, Jake, Vince, and Cal are doing. I should probably tell my bosses to change the password.
Five: I am also trying to do those last-chance things. I may run off to Ithaca this weekend for one more glorious trip to the farmers' market, the Friends of the Library book sale, the Cornell campus, and Collegetown Bagels. I may even buy myself some kind of t-shirt or something. But I'm also going to try to get to Kopernik Observatory, which is doing public events this weekend. I'm likely to do that even before I do Ithaca.
Six: Things that will happen soon after I arrive in Rhode Island: (1) Halloween (I'd like to be a hobbit again, but don't think I'll be able to get it together); (2) Election Day. Judge me all you want, but my plan so far is to deliberately and unapologetically miss the deadline for getting an absentee ballot. Nyah-nyah.
Seven: It's getting cold, which means at least two things: that I don't want to hang out downstairs (I'm always bad about doing my dishes on time, but in cold weather, the chill in the kitchen is a big reason why), and that I'm suddenly way more into tea than I...dang! I just remembered, writing this, that I left some tea on the counter to cool, and - ::tasting:: - now it's pretty much lukewarm. Oh, well...let that be a lesson to me!
Off now to go do stuff. For more takes, go see Jen!