adjusting to reality
so, today is the first day of my last week of LVC. sometime on saturday, i will begin my drive down to san francisco, with a stop in portland that night to make my drive on sunday a little bit shorter (though not much).
it's weird - after having a year that, for the most part, was really not a very positive experience overall, now i am getting nostalgic and really having mixed feelings about leaving seattle. don't get me wrong, i'm very excited to move to san francisco, but i am not as excited at the prospect of leaving seattle. i feel like i've only recently really begun to feel at home up here, and now i'm leaving again...oh well, it is what it is, and maybe i will end up back up here for grad school or something.
as for san francisco, though, i'm super excited about my living situation and my job. i'm really looking forward to living with someone i already know and am friends with (yay matt!) and i actually like the apartment a lot too, which is nice. my job sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun, even if i am very over-qualified for it. i will be working for the boys & girls clubs of san francisco as a "program generalist," which means that i will work some in the administrative office but spend most of my time working at the different clubhouses in the city, leading programs with kids as needed (so a week or two at one clubhouse, then at a different clubhouse, etc). after a year of working with only one other person who, to put it mildly, is not my favorite person in the world, the boys & girls club should be a nice change of pace, and it's also a job that i shouldn't have too much trouble leaving whenever i do go to grad school.
so....now i get to adjust to the reality that i am leaving seattle on saturday, moving into my apartment on sunday, and starting a new job next wednesday. yay for growing up i suppose...or something like that :)
it's weird - after having a year that, for the most part, was really not a very positive experience overall, now i am getting nostalgic and really having mixed feelings about leaving seattle. don't get me wrong, i'm very excited to move to san francisco, but i am not as excited at the prospect of leaving seattle. i feel like i've only recently really begun to feel at home up here, and now i'm leaving again...oh well, it is what it is, and maybe i will end up back up here for grad school or something.
as for san francisco, though, i'm super excited about my living situation and my job. i'm really looking forward to living with someone i already know and am friends with (yay matt!) and i actually like the apartment a lot too, which is nice. my job sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun, even if i am very over-qualified for it. i will be working for the boys & girls clubs of san francisco as a "program generalist," which means that i will work some in the administrative office but spend most of my time working at the different clubhouses in the city, leading programs with kids as needed (so a week or two at one clubhouse, then at a different clubhouse, etc). after a year of working with only one other person who, to put it mildly, is not my favorite person in the world, the boys & girls club should be a nice change of pace, and it's also a job that i shouldn't have too much trouble leaving whenever i do go to grad school.
so....now i get to adjust to the reality that i am leaving seattle on saturday, moving into my apartment on sunday, and starting a new job next wednesday. yay for growing up i suppose...or something like that :)