I’ve accepted a job offer in Houston, after a lot of discussion and back and forth with Mike about the pros and cons and oh shit he has to find a job too. While I’m really not feeling good about having to move, I’m super excited about the job itself. It’s with a company I’ve been hoping to be hired by pretty much since I started doing this whole geology thing, and I’m going to be doing work that I find extremely interesting. (I get to look at actual rocks! And thin sections!)
My projected start time at the new job is beginning of February, since hopefully that will provide sufficient time to finish writing my thesis, get it defended and get all the edits in, as well as deal with more mundane tasks like finding an apartment, selling the house, all that. I’m actually a little excited about the house selling part, since this seems like a great opportunity to thin out our possessions. The company is paying for the move, using Atlas. Which means that someone else gets to pack up my house and move all the boxes. This is apparently how grownups do things, who would knew?
We’re planning to come back to Colorado and visit very often, hopefully even as much as once a month. So you haven’t gotten rid of us yet! And right now it’s definitely my plan to be back for Mile Hi Con next year as well. (It’ll be even easier to get to Worldcon, come to think of it.)
It’s exciting, and scary. Just like all adventures.