salutations from the western sea
Yes I am still alive for those who were wondering. The first part of 2006 has been a little bumpy but I have finally landed and am better off than when I started.
We survived another installment of traveling holiday insanity (how many states CAN you see in 10 days?) and were settling into the new year when I got my holiday 'bonus' at work. Yep you guessed it, my boss thought that the first friday in Jan would be a perfect time to layoff the entire architecture dept. We all thought it was a relatively bad idea but sadly were not consulted when making this decision. Go figure.
But as I have usually found with the bad stuff in my life if I hold on long enough things do turn out for the better. Fortunately spring is busy in the architecture world and I was at my last job just long enough and acquired enough experience to become suddenly very marketable. And I got really lucky. So now I am at a small firm 10 min from my house that designs schools that have good aesthetics and use sustainable energy concepts. (ex day lighting, solar panels and energy efficient fixtures.) Now if I can just stay here for a year things will be perfect. Of course we get very little say as to how long we will be in CA. Steve is up to change duty stations this summer so anything is possible. Fortunately he has 3 years left and then I get to pick where we go.
Well enough rambling for now. My goal is to get on here at least once a week and mindlessly ramble at anyone who has an interest.
ciao ciao
We survived another installment of traveling holiday insanity (how many states CAN you see in 10 days?) and were settling into the new year when I got my holiday 'bonus' at work. Yep you guessed it, my boss thought that the first friday in Jan would be a perfect time to layoff the entire architecture dept. We all thought it was a relatively bad idea but sadly were not consulted when making this decision. Go figure.
But as I have usually found with the bad stuff in my life if I hold on long enough things do turn out for the better. Fortunately spring is busy in the architecture world and I was at my last job just long enough and acquired enough experience to become suddenly very marketable. And I got really lucky. So now I am at a small firm 10 min from my house that designs schools that have good aesthetics and use sustainable energy concepts. (ex day lighting, solar panels and energy efficient fixtures.) Now if I can just stay here for a year things will be perfect. Of course we get very little say as to how long we will be in CA. Steve is up to change duty stations this summer so anything is possible. Fortunately he has 3 years left and then I get to pick where we go.
Well enough rambling for now. My goal is to get on here at least once a week and mindlessly ramble at anyone who has an interest.
ciao ciao