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May 16th, 2006

Yes, i know. It has been a while since i posted anything worth reading. I shall take this brief pause in my crazy life right now to update everyone on what has been happening with me in the last few weeks.

1. I have to move (see #2). To Charlottesville, VA. It’s nice awesome to the max!!! i love it there. It’s gorgeous and i can’t wait to move.
2. I got a job. Yes, a job. A real career-building, move out of the house job. Yay for me.
3. I leave on May 24. Yes, 2006. I have to be packed and ready to go in 1 week. Ugh. Crazy begins now. I have so many things to do and people to see before i go.
4. I graduated. On May 9, 2006 i waited for a long time in an uncomfortable chair to get a holder for the diplomma they will mail to me later. yay.
5. I am finally done with Utilimaster. I don’t work there anymore, i get one more check in a week or two or something and then i’ll be completely detached from the place. yay. i’ll miss some of the people i worked with, but not all, and i won’t miss the job at all. it was boring, took nothing to do my job (intellectually or physically) and i will never look back. YAY!
6. There was a graduation party for people from the computer lab (we were there way too much) at Cory’s place. It was awesome. I’ll miss them all. But they can visit me once i get settled (see #1).

However, a bulleted list doesn’t really give you all the info (or show the pictures) that i have for this…

So, Charlottesville, Virginia. Called c-ville locally because it is a royal pain in the ass to keep writing that name over and over is an awesome place. Right by the Blue Ridge Mountains in central VA, it has a population of 40k but lots more around the actual city (which can’t expand and is thus limited to a deceptively small population). The c-ville metro has a population of about 100k. It’s also the home of UVA - the University of Virginia - and is fairly artsy and modern because of that. Leaving the sprawl and getting outside the urban area leads you very, very quickly to rural surroundings. And i really mean rural when i say that.

It’s about 70ish miles from Richmond, 71 miles from Lynchburg, and 118 miles from DC. Nice location for travelling around the area and it’s also the home of Montecello (Jefferson’s home), Ash-Lawn (Madison’s home) and a shitload of other historic stuff and battlefields and memorials, etc. There’s also nature. Lots of it. Nature on everything. I love it and i will be camping and fishing ASAP. Hello Virginia!!!

My job is awesome. I think. I will be programming Class II slot machine software. It’s bingo style so someone has to win. I’m pretty happy about it. I get paid well and i hope this can get me into game programming in general. Happy happy joy joy. I get free lunches paid by the company, dress code is casual to business casual, hours are flex and i think it will fit with me very well. yay.

I’ve been packing this week and i should be ready by then end. On the 24th, i’ll be leaving with my parents, my grandparents and a 16″ Penske truck to drive 700 miles to my new home. It’s getting very real now and i’m not sure if i’m happy or scared to death. Time will tell. I think it will be ok. I am getting a couch and loveseat from my parents, i have a lot of the stuff i need already from PU and various purchases i’ve made over the years. I think it will be a fun adventure where i can finally get out on my own and figure out what i want from life and everything. Maybe even find a woman. That’d be swell!

Graduation was ok. It was long and the chairs were really really uncomfortable. It was hot and i only got a holder for my diplomma, but my parents got to see me walk across the stage and i think they really enjoyed that. I also saw Dr. Knight and he gave us all his blessing and then i got a picture of him and me together. It was a little disconcerting when he put his arm around me, but it was a great way to end my college days. I even got a personal pic with Russ. Awwww. Chinese will never be the same… actually, it won’t. That kinda made me sad there for a bit. Bummer.

I ended my long stint at Utilimaster on May 12. It was a sad thing, but more so, a happy thing. I feel bad for Sheryl because she’s running low now, but i needed to leave and be done. It felt really good to walk away from there without a time badge in my pocket, and merge onto SR19 from the parking lot for the last time. The lot was mostly empty and traffic was thinning in the late afternoon of a friday. A good end to a mostly crappy job. My coworkers had a little party for me friday morning with donuts, juice, milk and cards. I even got some mylar balloons! yay! The cards had various gift cards in them and it was really nice of them to do that for me. Always appreciated to have those little bits of financial help during the move!

Then, saturday, we had the going away/graduated/lets get together and drink party at Cory’s place. It was perfect. Good food. Good people. Good drinks. And a fire that wasn’t too shabby as the evening progressed. It was nice to at least be able to see everyone before we each go our separate way and to have a picture of everyone that we can keep for the upcoming years to remember the fun and not-so-fun times in a computer lab at IUSB.

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