One Month Anniversary

As of last night I have been in San Fran for one full calendar month. More meaningfully, I am about to finish my fourth week here at Lightswitch.

Things at work have picked up dramatically. Yesterday I spent some time making a 3D animation of the partially-indoor roller coaster we're lighting (the one I've alluded to before). Its definitely my favorite current project and so they're letting me stick with it. There's talk of a meeting down in [edit] for the coaster and I'm really hoping they'll take me along.

San Fran has been great for me. I'm in the process of "De-grad schooling" myself. I'd kept my hair short because I had no time to deal with it, so I'm letting it grow back out (it's very 'Cali' of me, I know). But I've also started biking to and from work. It's about 5 miles along the Mill Valley-Sausalito bike path-- the most used path in the country. Which is far from crowded, there's a comfortable number of people around. It's a beautiful ride, most of it's right along the bay. The weather is also rejuvenating out here too. Another non-grad type experience was having the freedom to book a last-minute weekend trip to Vegas.

I won't say its been a completely smooth transition. Not living in San Francisco proper means my activity-options are more limited, so its taking a little longer to meet people. Some friends are who they are, for better and worse, and that's made things a little tougher too. Luckily, those things are offset, at least some, by being back within reasonable range of Josh, whom I'm taking that little Vegas romp with in 8 days. Also penciled in on our agenda are skiing out in Salt Lake, and wine tasting in Napa before my time in SF is through.

I guess the measure that feels the most impactful to me is a round-about one. I can't believe that I've already been here for a month. This is in sharp contrast to grad school where time seemed to move so slowly that a couple times I thought I had lost a credit card bill because it had been ages since I got one.

Anyway, time to do some [edit] paperwork. I'll post pictures of my daily commute soon ;-)