The Inbetween

It's an odd thing being in that in-between phase that inevitably happens and comes hand in hand with change...any kind of change really. I haven't even been here for a full 48 hours yet but I feel like I've been here for a while...weeks. It was kind of a blessing that I didn't have a place yet since looking for one has been such an adventure and has kept my mind off missing home....slo. Keeps me on my toes too. And really from the get-go, it hasn't been that bad. You call, they respond, you visit, they tell you they really want you to live there, you decide.

It's starting to get really hard to decide lol. I checked out 3 more places today. Out of all six, two of them offered to lower the rent for me, and give me 'extra' accomodations. That's pretty kewl. Makes me wonder how the normal renter in San Jose (or I guess anywhere really) is. I think I'd make a good roommate since I'm so adaptable, but I'm still a 21 year old college student with a myspace profile with some happy-time pictures on it lol (not big on myspace btw). Haha well why doubt myself. I think I'd be awesome to live with too. :)

So Kim woke me up this morning and I groggily got up and got ready at 7am. I left the house with my three small totes by 7:45am, and was at work sitting at my desk by 8:30am. As I got onto the freeway from Atherton, I was going maybe 20 mph for about 10 minutes, then I was hittin 70 the rest of the way down. Amazing, not much traffic at all. It was all going the other way. That made me consider staying at my cousins house for at least another month until I could find more coops/interns to move in with (I came at an in-between time where the coops are already here, or haven't started yet lol). But it still took 40 minutes to drive to work...which to a lot of working people may not seem so bad, but to me, a slo-spoiled small-town converted girl...it felt like more than forever.

The place that I am considering would take me 10 minutes or less to drive to work, never even having to hit a freeway. I could take the back country roads, beautiful really. Which means I'd get at least a whole extra hour of sleep every night. :)