This and that...

We have moved. :)
I was definitely the last one to finish packing - half an hour after our office closed on Thursday. But guess what? I was the first one DONE with unpacking. That's what happens when you pack very strategically, know exactly what's in each box and where it goes...and of course, when you take about half of your belongings home. Having less than two months left in this job, it just didn't seem to make sense to pack/unpack now and then pack again in a few months...so half of my books went into boxes that were then brought back to my apartment and will now sit here until I move them to a storage area or wherever else I'll find a place to store things over the summer.

I'm starting to panic a little about this whole job searching thing. And part of me is just mad that my well-formulated plan didn't work out. I left my job last year not just because after three years it was time to move on but because I knew that this spring/summer wouldn't be a good time to job search. I knew there'd be a couple weddings in different countries in my future and I wanted to be able to just take a month off work and fly to all these weddings and then return to my job. My friends even asked when good times for their weddings would be and I asked them, if anyhow possible, to have them earlier in the summer since we all know the last few months of the summer are filled with training and opening for us ResLifers. And they did. Everything would have worked out perfectly!!! I would have left in early May for a month of vacation; I would have been able to leave my car and all my belongings here; and then return to my job in June - still able to work on some summer projects, help prepare training and then be ready and rested for a new academic year.

But then I came here and everything went wrong. And now I have no idea where I'll be next year. I can't book my flight home because I don't know when I'll need to come back or if I will even come back; and we all know flights to Europe get more expensive the longer you wait. I don't even know if I'll have a job offer before I need to leave for the summer; and how am I supposed to continue searching/interviewing when I'm in Austria and then India.

When did everything get so screwed up? The only small consolation is that no matter how difficult life is right now, the one thing I do not regret is turning in a resignation letter.