Yes it's true. I have climbed aboard the mortgage train. Come oh ye blessed debt! I just need to keep telling myself there is good debt and there is bad debt.
I will be closing on or before July 29th. Of this year even!
Here are a few photos of the place. A lovely house full of someone else's stuff.
I just made an offer on a house.
I feel like my life is going at 200 miles per hour. School, work, now this.
I hope that I wind up having enough left over to take a vacation at some point. I still owe myself some time on a beach somewhere trying to make sense out of it all.
Oh yeah, and drinking out of a coconut shell should be involved.
I'm sooo close I can taste it.
The biggest problem with this final quarter of school is I've already checked out. I started working at Lux (rock) a couple of months ago and it almost seems moot to keep putting effort into an endeavor when it's ultimate goal has already been achieved. My final class is the CMS class which has become something of a slow death march. The content is pretty interesting (although not as mind shattering as I might have hoped, I guess I just have way more experience in this field than I previously thought), but the class takes place in the evening and is 3.5 hours of PowerPoint pain. Bob, the instructor, really needs to re-evaluate his pedagogical methodology. You don't want your students to spend 2 hours in a dark room being talked at. I'm tellin' ya friend, it just don't work.
My portfolio passed the second reader. That was my final graduation requirement. Whew. If you are so inclined you can see it here. The user is reader and the password is portfolio. I'm not sure why I password protected it other than it was something to figure out how to do in a Unix environment (and thereby distract myself from actually writing the damned thing). There are a couple of personal anecdotes in there (nothing that hasn't been described on this blog though), but whatever, it's done. Done-diddly-done, as Ned Flanders would say.
I'll write something about my job here one of these days soon. It's pretty cool and pretty challenging. The first few weeks I was there I would rather forget. Not that I didn't do well, it's more about the project I was working on required 60+ hour work weeks. That has mellowed out, which is good. I don't mind putting in the hours from time to time, but when it becomes a constant requirement of a job something has to change.
My new goal is to work smarter, not harder.
