I am without a computer home.
Since I’m working in Norcross and all my stuff is in Athens, I’ve just been using a bed at Heather’s parents’ house. (I say using a bed because I rarely use much else. Maybe the laundry facilities, or the refrigerator.) I sent my laptop in last week for service, leaving me without a “base of operations” computer. Yeah, I can get my news and email and other necessities on the web perfectly well from any other computer, but it just isn’t right not having my software set up just right or my email downloaded permanently or access to my music or games or the latest copy of my resume. (OK the resume part is a lie; I keep the latest copy web-accessible because of the necessity of having it close at hand.)

Today (7/17) is my anniversary with Heather, 7 years to the day since we began our adventures together. The world 7 years ago was not a whole lot different in any radical sense. In a personal sense, however, it was a different place entirely. I was a different person. It’s a big block of time, to be sure, but I can’t help but think that the amount of time gets smaller as time goes by. I know that is backwards, but that first year, eighteen months, two and a half years… They go by a little more slowly. Things are new, and it’s not so much a committed relationship as an experimental togetherness. Don’t get me wrong, it feels like a relationship, feels like a committed give-and-take, but a few years down the road, one looks back and realizes it was much less than it is currently.
That’s where I am right now. I look back at the relationship and think of everything that almost destroyed us and it’s a short list. I look at what kept us together and I cannot even begin to make a list, much less describe its length. Perhaps hindsight can be as selective as it is proscriptive.

I phone-interviewed with Zaxby’s corporate office today, and hopefully they will call me back tomorrow to set up an in-person interview. In addition, I have an interview set up with Cox/Mannheim Online in Atlanta for August, which is a Big Thing and hopefully will go well.

In local news, I’ve secured temporary housing and storage for a few months while I find a job and possibly longer if I get one in Athens. It’s a place in Watkinsville, only a few miles outside Athens, and I’m anxious to begin moving my stuff there.