Everything_Else Where: Friday, May 21, 2010

I quit my job.
It had been five and a half years at the same place I've been working since I graduated college. An incredible experience... but it was time to move on. When I finally pulled the trigger on telling my boss, he wanted 2-3 more weeks out of me, but his boss kicked me out the next day. With some last minute time off, I booked a trip out to California to see Nellie and drive down the coast to see my brother Jake, who I probably won't cross paths with again until Christmas, so it was a two birds with one unexpected stone kind of thing, and on that short of notice, I'm not sure what else I would have been able to pull off. I got kicked out on Thursday and I flew on Sunday. I would have left even earlier had it not been for that stupid relay triathlon that I had to bike in down by AC on Sunday AM. I literally landed in LAX with our team number and my age still Sharpied onto each calf.

On the second half of the trip after returning from Cinco de Mayo with Jake in San Diego, Nellie, Matt, and I traveled up to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, spent the night in the woods, and then took off for his parents' place in San Francisco.

Nellie recently became the proud mother of a hairless cat (sphynx) named Chicken. It is the most hideous and yet the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Chicken should have had her own blog entry. As you can see, she was the focus of our Tuesday morning. Non cat stuff below, fret not.

she moves like a ghost...