Vacation from my Vacation
Poser June 21st, 2008
Its Summer Vacation from school, and I am currently taking a break up in Chico. Last day of classes was May 22, so I took the following weekend off and traveled back to San Jose on the 27th. While I am glad to be done with classes, which towards the end of this past semester I was just ACHING to be finished and out of town, I miss Chico a lot.
Granted, venturing back to San Jose and my friend there and the cool job I have is cool, I’ve once again just right back to my lazy ways. I didn’t go for a run once while I was in San Jose, though I did do the Muddy Buddy race a few weekends ago. Which besides the day I had to ride moms bike to work, has been the only exercise I’ve gotten so far this summer. I guess that means I need to pony up a few bucks and get a 3 month gym membership, or face gaining weight, which wouldn’t be a bad thing, but I would get out of shape.
Additionally, there have been quite a few projects I need to actually do, such as website redesigns and learning Javascript, XML, PHP, AJAX, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Perl, and other web related stuff. I’ve been needing to redesign my resume for at least a week now, which should have been something I coulda done in 2, 3 days max. I haven’t gone to see any movies, save the Chronicles of Narnia. All I do is go to work, then come home, eat dinner, and fart around my laptop while watching tv. Not healthy or productive.
So this brings me to Chico, where in 4 days I’ve been here, I’ve done more dishes than in a day then I’ve done since going back to San Jose (which is good, its doing chores and being responsible), gone out to Rockband Night at Panamas, gone out to UBar with James and Mario just to go and hangout, played a ton of Nintendo (mostly Mario Kart Wii and Guitar hero), started the redesign of my resume, slept in a little, printed and started my financial aid appeal, did laundry, cleaned my room, hung out with friends, went on a 4 mile run, saw a new movie (Get Smart, and it was hilarious), and bought food and made my own lunches and dinner. Basically, I lived independently and on my own. I guess this means I really need to get out on my own, and really leave “the nest.” While its fun living at home, its not productive.
On the heels of leaving the nest, is the question: “Where do I leave to?” Well, I want to go to Seattle, cause I love it there. I also dislike the Bay Area right now, for its insanely overpriced style of living. Southern California (namely LA and anywhere near it) is probably too insane to live in, I think. Portland is an idea, that its “borrowed” from James, since he enjoyed it there and I trust his assessment of the town. And then there’s Chico, where I’ve started my independent path of self-discovery, or some other hoopla semi related. Chico has quite a lot to offer. Bidwell Park for one, which to me is just awesome, its like Chico’s own Central Park or Golden Gate Park. Well, kinda. Theres One Mile and Lower Bidwell which is closer to town, and Upper Bidwell which is awesome hiking and stuff. Though its got kind of a small job market, which I guess I’d have to reevaluate what I want to do, web development stuff or my Information Architecture, or Librarian stuff.
Meh, enough rambling. Its time for sleep. The whole point of this rant and brain dump is: Sam needs to get out of the house, and be on his own. Stupid life making me grow up.