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Well, California officially has one more resident.  After many months of job hunting, I accepted an offer from Applied Materials in Santa Clara.  Once I signed on the dotted line, everything started moving very fast!  In two weeks, everything I owned was on a truck and I was on a plane to San Jose.  I’m currently staying with my friend Cindy in Santa Cruz while I’m looking for a place to live.  I’ve viewed so many apartments, houses and condos in the last few days, I think they all start to look the same.  I found a great place and put in an application, so now I’m back to waiting again.  Hopefully, it will go well and I’ll be buying a new bed to go in it this weekend!  Time will tell.  It’s great to back on the West Coast and I really like the bay area.  One of my many goals during my time here is to learn to use some of the ever abundant public transit options in the area.  I’m guessing it will take a while to get the hang of, so expect some posts about my adventures with Caltrain, BART and the light rail.

I’m so bad at waiting…especially when it feels like I”m waiting for my life to start up again. I’ve been in somewhat of a holding pattern for the last year and a half. Which is odd considering how much has been going on. I have a good job, even if it’s not ideal. But it pays really well and has a flexible schedule. I dated a really great guy for a while and I ended it because it was lacking the “it” factor. (But I have to wonder if it was really more about me than him.) I’ve traveled a lot, mostly because I’ve been pretty unhappy here. I play on two really great softball teams and have some really good friends because of it. So, how is it that I say I’ve been in a holding pattern? I knew shortly after moving here that I didn’t want to settle down here. Now, as I’m nearing the end of my recent job hunt, I’m excited about a new start. Hopefully this will be the last move for many years. But it’s not final yet and it’s KILLING me. It’s sooooo close and I keep hearing “any day now” but it’s not completely done. And I can’t give notice on my current job until it’s done. I can’t work with the relocation folks until it’s done. I can’t get too excited until it’s done. Any day now, right?

As a child I was diagnosed with ADD (attention deficit disorder). Now, I should point out that ADD has become the catch-all diagnosis for how to deal with any child that doesn’t sit quietly with their hands in their lap. While I don’t believe in Ritalin, I do believe that I have an attention issue that I prefer to refer to as SOS (shiny object syndrome). It makes me feel a little more unique than all the masses of Ritalin drugged out teens. Anyway, my SOS can be both a good and a bad thing. My mouth has a hard time keeping up with the speed of my brain, so my sentences are often conglomerations of thoughts. It’s one of the reasons I like writing so much, it forces my brain to slow down because I can’t type as fast as I can talk - let alone think. So, while SOS makes it hard for me to get things done or to convey my thoughts accurately, it also allows me to adapt quickly. What do I mean by that, you may ask. I’ll give you an example. I was driving home from work the other day. I was giving my friend Rhonda a ride home and it was a surprisingly sunny and pleasant day. As we were chatting in the car, I reached for my sunglasses and put them on for probably the third time since I’ve been living in Ann Arbor. I glazed over and lost focus on what Rhonda was saying and suddenly blurted out, “Ann Arbor’s not so bad. I could get used to living here.” It’s a good thing Rhonda wasn’t driving because the look she gave me said she would have probably wrecked the car in her amusement and frustration. “Have you already forgotten the winter? The snow and the sludge and the six below zero afternoons?” I smiled as I rolled down the window. “Yeah, but it’s like sixty out and the sun is shining. You have to admit it’s pretty green already.” She shook her head at me and laughed saying “You have to have the shortest attention span of anyone I know.” So, I guess my SOS makes it easier for me to forget the bad and let me move on faster in most cases. However, while it’s true that I do have a short attention span. I’m also an obsessive compulsive (OCD) which means I bounce around from topic to topic, plan to plan, project to project until I finally land on something that I won’t ever let go of. The good news is when I light on something productive, like work, or something fun, like writing a script I can really get something done - no matter what the situation. The bad news is when I land on something unhealthy I have a hard time walking away. I’m not sure what the bottom line is for an OCD/ADD/SOS person. I’m not sure there really is a bottom line for people like me - just the latest mood swing.

I’ve recently rediscovered how much I enjoy writing. I decided to start my own blog and try using blogging as a route to clearing my head. Now, one caveat to the few lone readers who stumble upon my blog - I have a tendency to spend more time worrying about sentence structure and spelling than content. In an effort to override this anal retentive nature, I will do minimal if any editing of each individual blog before posting. So please don’t hold any grammatical inaccuracies or typos against me. I may however, go back and edit when I’m feeling a compulsive urge. I would also like to apologize in advance to anyone who I offend, hurt, betray, etc. I assure you I have no malice or evil intent while at the keyboard, merely bad taste at times.