Wow -- a week since my last post? I guess I've been pretty distracted...getting ready to move, submitting paperwork to Lewin, cleaning cleaning cleaning, lots of travel, etc.

I'm back in Oregon for a week. Missed my flight out of Baltimore yesterday morning, spent the rest of the day waiting standby to see if I could make it back here. During that time I finished the ~300 pages left in "Plan of Attack." An interesting read, but not the easiest book to finish. The text didn't exactly inspire me to finish the book quickly, other than that I hate leaving books unfinished and had some others that looked more promising. So I finished it and started Orwell's "1984" but my eyes are sooo tired of reading.

One week until I start work. I'm both excited and terrified. I'll be doing some pretty long days for the first two weeks -- I'll be commuting from Baltimore, and I would really like to avoid the I-95/I-495 rush hour insanity. On a side note, when do you think rush hour was actually just one hour? And when people were actually rushing instead of being stopped in traffic? At any rate, my drive from Baltimore to Falls Church will probably take at least an hour and a half, maybe as much as two hours, even if I avoid the heaviest rush hour times. So...in to work at 8:00ish, leave by 7:00ish?

I went price-shopping at Ikea last week. I think I can get a nice futon/sofa and a bed for a toal of $800 or less. They have some pretty sweet sales going on right now, but I can't buy something now and have them deliver it in a month. Damn.

Time to go eat, sleep, or be lazy while I can.