Paperwork in the morning, a bureaucrat’s delight.<\/p>\n
So, the first meaningful thing I did this morning was get to the DMV about 10 minutes after they opened. An hour later (most of it, of course, spent waiting in lines), I got a receipt, a corner nicked off my CA driver’s license, and the assurance that my license would be along in 3-6 weeks. Ugh. Considering I plan on being on a plane to London in 5 weeks, I’m hoping it’s closer to 3.<\/p>\n
Then I came to campus, had a bagel, and picked up my graduation packet. It’s actually not all that bad. Just a couple of sheets of paper. Graduation, coming up so soon…<\/p>\n
Well, let’s see, I have to move to chicago, deal with my stuff. I don’t think a good idea to u-haul it down. The expense of a u-haul or other arrangement is probably more than the cost of my bookshelves. The books can be sent for less than $100 guestimate (yay media rate mail). Most of the clothes aren’t worth much (when your pants provide no barrier to fisting while worn, it is perhaps time they be thrown out). Computery bits, well, I got the monitor for $25 a couple years ago. I’d give it away and be happy. The computer itself isn’t bad, but isn’t rockstar. I’d want to keep my hard drives, but the rest of it I’d gladly sell, probably for $100 or so. My Box(es) of Emotional Baggage, I might want to sort through and reduce. I’ll probably store some stuff either in the basement or in a self-storage facility, and come and get it some weekend in August or September.<\/p>\n
Then poof. Another city I’m done with. Another set of friends to say goodbye to. Graduate and head on down to Chicago a couple days later. Spend a day or two in town before heading off to Europe for 3 weeks. Head to San Fran on my return trip and stay there for 10 days or so. That should leave me in mid-to-late June. I’ll probably take a week in Pittsburgh, and a weekend Seattle before the Gay Games. I’d like to do a bike\/camping trip for an extended weekend. I may also head to southern illinois and spend some time with the extended family. Then I swim in the Games and start work the following Monday. <\/p>\n I’m still not sure about the chicago office. I like the people. The location will probably be more tolerable now that Thai and I are on better terms. But the lack of the natural resources & the environment team in the office makes me wonder if I couldn’t do better somewhere else. But I’m also sick and tired of moving. My current mood is “switch to somewhere with the NRE team”, but I’m open to persuasion.<\/p>\n So, that’s the course I’ve charted for my future. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paperwork in the morning, a bureaucrat’s delight. So, the first meaningful thing I did this morning was get to the DMV about 10 minutes after they opened. An hour later (most of it, of course, spent waiting in lines), I got a receipt, a corner nicked off my CA driver’s license, and the assurance that … Continue reading “Paperwork, post-graduation, and my nomadic existence”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}