As someone who has worked and gone to school from home for the last two years, this is a bit disconcerting because it may mean getting out of bed, showered, dressed and being somewhere before 9 am. I know this is par for the course for all ya'll, but for me it's frightening. I like sitting around in my pajamas and having 6-party business-related conference calls until at least noon. Everyone should have a life like this!

Seriously, though, I think on some levels it's going to be good for me: getting out of the house more means more interaction with other people. And that, loathe though I am to seek it out, is probably not a bad thing for me. I tend to be very isolationist and that is not a good thing, just in general.

At least I have three months to mentally prepare myself for the transition...! I'm going to be using the extra time between now and then to play the piano, get back into running and start going to more AA meetings. And perhaps get some freelance web design jobs! (Know anyone who needs a design? Send 'em my way!)

Oh, and just a brief aside: remember the person I met about two months ago and really liked and was seeing until he unexpectedly broke things off? Well, it appears that things are moving back in the "dating" direction. Again, I can't say a whole lot, for a variety of uninteresting reasons, but suffice to say that the short hiatus wherein we were "just friends" was enough to cause some rethinking on his part. So we are now starting to see more of each other and to explore things again, with the commitment to just be honest and open about where we both are. So it's all good. Terrifying and exciting and fun, but good. Meanwhile, though, I'm going to be thinking up an appropriate "alias" for him so that I don't have to continually refer to him on my blog as "that guy I'm seeing."