Kat was in town all week so things I was even shorter on time than I usually am. I don’t have internet access at the temporary place and when I’m at work, I’m …well…working. For real. It’s funny, a number of people said I was going to be working miserable hours. I haven’t really noticed anyone working miserable hours, but I have seen a lot of people who work a SOLID 8 hours. I mean, no fucking around whatsoever. It’s strange. Everyone is running a million miles an hour all the time, but they all leave after working for 8-9 hrs. Strange.
I’m still getting up to speed on everything. Switching back to development is one thing, but moving into a UNIX shop is entirely different. Not to mention the fact that they use all of the programming features that I never used. I remember thinking to myself that I was never going to have to create lists and write fucking sorting algorithms and all sorts of bullshit like that. That’s the crap they teach you in school so you can prove to a company that you can learn to work in their environment. The stuff here actually uses that knowledge. I’ve never had to deal with file I/O and vector manipulation and sorting and all that bullshit. It feels like a going back to academia, only I go to a very big company with free cherry coke and bottled water. And I don’t have to do homework. And I get paid. Other than that, it’s about the same.
We found an apartment and I’ll let Kat explain it all, since she’s really the one that did all the work, giving up a week of vacation just to find us a place. And in the most miserable conditions possible. It rained every single day she was here. June 3rd I was watching the news and it said that for the month of June in NYC we had already surpassed the record rainfall for the month. Three days in. Ridiculous. Demanda was right when she said it rains more in NYC than in Seattle. I thought she was kidding. The apartment is the shit though. Seriously, you’re all going to have to come out to see it.
Unfortunately it’s not going to be available until August, so I’m going to be subletting for another month and a half. On the plus side though, Kat is going to have more time to take care of stuff in Austin. So if there was something you had your eye on at our house, get in touch with Kat soon.