posted on Monday, Jun. 20, 2005 @ 13:28
well, exceptional depression aside (sigh), i have something else on my mind. and not just my hair (please tell me you get that "animaniacs" reference). i'm afraid the fact i've talked about this so much is going to jinx us, but the purpose of having a journal is to expunge these things from my brain.
owen's going to apply for a job with microsoft in redmond, washington.
that kind of looks like a mess, so here's a more comprehensive picture.
it's only 15 miles from seattle (!!!), so it's covering it on that map. seattle is a very wonderful place from what i could tell the week i was there in high school. i walked around by myself a while, and in comparison it seems like austin. except with good weather. the yearly mean temperature in redmond is 52.8, with 35.5 inches of rain. i'm sure that sounds horrific to some people, but to me that's heaven. while my family and i were there staying with a couple of my parents' friends, chris and tammy, my sister and i went to the school tammy works at. we were running around playing tag, and i had to pause for a while to recover from lung burn. it was july, and i was running in a hoodie, and had to stop because my insides were cold. that is fantastic.
redmond, in 1960, had 1,470 people in it. now, a mere 45 years later, it has boomed into 47,000. talk about businesses taking over small towns. it's also home to cingular, some bio-med thing, and :drumroll: nintendo of america. the idea of living somewhere so small is a little intriguing after being in austin for four years. it's only acceptable because it's so close to seattle.
i was telling mom about it last night, and she sounded sad. she whined, "that's far away," but then i mentioned those magical three words:
back
to
school
immediately her tone changed as she agreed, "yeah, yeahh..."
the idea is that if one is working for a multi-billion dollar company, one will make more money than for a contractor in austin, tx. since the "one" in this scenario is owen, who happens to be a very loveable and nice person, that would mean i wouldn't have to have the kind of job i do now. granted, i would have to be very careful about getting sick since i wouldn't have insurance. and i guess i'd have to stockpile on birth control pills before i left.
anyway. that's way too forward-thinking. the point is, i could get a more flexible part-to-full-time job that doesn't pay as well as sitting on my ass like i do here, and have time to go to class during the day.
that's all speculation, though. like i said, i may be doing a bad thing by mentioning it so freely, but i can't help it. it's as exciting as it is scary to think about moving so far away. if nothing else, there's canada! and everyone ��s canada.
so, in conclusion, here's a picture i got off gurochan.
