Well, I’m in Seattle. It may be a while before I am able to put another update on my page, unfortunately. I’m currently staying with some friends who have been kind enough to put my webserver and main work machine on their network, however due to their firewall, I’m not able to update my page from my own machines! Bleah. Hopefully this will be resolved fairly soon — I’m currently posting this from a machine at Kinko’s in downtown Seattle.
The trip down was fairly uneventful — a redeye flight where I didn’t want to turn on the reading light and disturb my seatmates, so — as I can’t sleep on airplanes — I spent the entire 3 hour flight zoning out to music. Oh, well. Got picked up at the airport by Dez and Chad, and have been staying with them and Casey at their apartment in the Ballard area.
My days have been spent bouncing between exploring the city (mostly in a ‘V’ from Ballard to Downtown to Capitol Hill and back), learning some of the layout and bus routes, and apartment hunting. I’ve been holding off on the job hunting a bit until I know where I’m going to be living, to avoid landing a job that I then find out is near-impossible to get to reliably.
Hopefully, the apartment situation will be resolved soon, however — I’ve put down a holding fee and submitted an application for a tiny little studio apartment just six blocks away from where I’m staying now. Now I’m just in the ‘hurry up and wait’ stage while the landlords go through my credit history, rental history, yadda yadda yadda — my least favorite part. Ugh.
So that’s the reader’s digest condensed cliffs notes version of the past week or so…I’ll try to get more up here when I can, but it may very well be sometime in July before I have my own reliable, steady, non-glitchy connection to the ‘net from my own place. Until then….