I toyed with the idea of collecting the short thoughts and observations I'd been collecting on Google Keep over the last few days, until I realised that they could be accurately described as "tweets", and so released them in the medium where they belong.
I started writing a draft of my mini-thesis on why American cities feel so much more spartan and bare than English ones, then realised that a) it boils down to "Americans exist indoors, and consider roads/streets a medium of transit, not a place in and of themselves, so see no need to decorate the outside of buildings" (hardly of bloggable-length, even if I stretch it out with some historical context), and b) the only two of my friends who'd be interested to read it have already had it proposed to them while I was feeling the idea out (thanks, George and Vartan!) - though if you want to read it, you can find a quick write-up here.
So this is just a short piece to say that I'm here, I'm alive, and I am, if not yet thriving, then at least making progress in the right direction to keep my head above water. Opened a bank account today, aiming to get a phone contract and SSN sorted over the next couple of days. Submitting travel expenses will get my British account out of overdraft, then when the deposit for Sherriff Road comes through I will be in a reasonably good situation. I've already got a couple of friends/old coworkers who I can hit up for drinks when I feel up to socialising - it's been a long time since I've really suffered from social anxiety, but yesterday I spent three hours convincing myself that I wasn't really hungry and didn't really need to go out for food before I noticed what was going on. Gotta keep an eye on that.
The team seem just as cool as I remembered. Fantastic dynamic, they clearly care about each other and what they're doing. I'm looking forward to becoming a part of it, and of them.
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