Finally life begins to calm down again

[obligatorycoffee]

Yeesh. The last few months have really, truly been bonkers. I think I've aged a good five years in that time span. I moved across the country into a house, quickly realized the house sucked ass and broke the lease and moved to an apartment, started a full time job, immediately went on "vacation" (it was the opposite of relaxing) for a week and a half, and then spent a week at a conference. I'm so tired. We still kind of don't have furniture yet either, so my mate and I were sleeping on a mattress on the floor for about two months, up until a couple days ago. I also got a shiny new computer, so unless I boot up my ageing laptop beast, I don't really have access yet to many of the files or browser tabs I'm used to having at my fingertips. I'm slowly moving my computer ecosystem to my new machine, but the computer is technically owned by my employer, so I'm still feeling out a way to set everything up so I can keep personal and work stuff at least a little separated. Fortunately it sounds like I'll be able to keep the computer once I leave the job, but it's got a few employer-installed things on it that make it tough to feel completely comfy just flinging my files everywhere like I did with my old computer.

Anyway, I'm finally starting to get settled and in a routine again and can focus a little bit more on things outside of work. My mate and I have been exploring town a little bit, I'm starting to cook and bake fun stuff again, and I'm finally starting to get back to the online communities I've been missing a ton over the past half year. Nothing crazy planned in the near future (online or offline), considering I really don't have free time like I used to and most of my brain is filled with thoughts about bird data and statistical analyses, but I feel like I'm at least healing from the stress of defending my dissertation and immediately being thrown into the postdoc world. So that's good.

I'll be around! ^.=.^

Comments

[citrakayah]

That is certainly a lot to go through. I hope that things finish straightening out soon.

What's the new town like?

[obligatorycoffee]

Yeah, things are finally chilling out a bit, thank goodness. I finally have a little bit of a routine and such now.

The town's great! Tons of stuff to do, and it's near a couple of universities, so there's interesting restaurants and niche academic talks I can check out when I've got an afternoon free.