Since graduation things have been, well, different. I didn’t spend time here posting about my job because I spent as little time as possible talking about my job. I didn’t want to think about how long it was going to be before I started and I wasn’t excited about moving to DC. I also haven’t ever spent a lot of time on here posting about my personal life. (You ask, there was one before this?) I’ve never liked when other people went on and on about their relationships in a public way. I talk more than enough about it with a small number of people. I’m sure they have been sick of me these past few weeks.
I didn’t want the job thing to get me down. I didn’t feel like I had much say in the matter so I went about my life the best I knew how until it was time to move to DC. I can’t remember back to the summer and how I got through it with nothing to do. I watched just about every Phillies game and people were home so I did things occasionally. The fall came and I started going to the Penn State games. I missed the first two to go to Phillies games (including one at RFK). I wound up at five home games, the game at Michigan, and the Orange Bowl. An 11-1 season made my fall fly by. Too fast. The first weekend I went up (the Central Michigan game) I met Valerie at the Saloon, after managing to not meet her in the 6 semesters over the 4 years that we had both been attending the school and both being friends with Matt. Between her and the games I wound up being in State College 8 weekends during the semester. Plus I had my phone to keep me company during the week.
Things have seemed to even out over the past months. When the job situation wasn’t going so well I had PSU football and Valerie to make me glad I had no other responsibilities. It would have been nice to have an income, but any one of those weekends early on I could have said that I was too tired or couldn’t get off of work to go up and things would have happened completely differently.
Then I started working in King of Prussia, with no actual position but they brought me in anyway. I begged to be here instead of going to DC, it was the same sort of temporary thing in both places. The second day I had an interview for a job I wound up getting. I will get to work in King of Prussia and live at home. Really that was my only goal when I started looking for a job. Something that would keep me interested, pay me, and let me live at home. Things couldn’t be better, right? Valerie started her job a few days after me. Exactly the job she wanted too, couldn’t be any better. Except for the fact that its located in Seattle. So that was it. We knew it was coming all along but it was surprisingly easy to push that to the back and pretend it wasn’t happening. It was amazing while it lasted.
I guess I could be happy that at least something is going right and it isn’t all bad. But why can’t it be all good? Hopefully it will be soon.