sunday work

Chips, TJ's avocado verde salsa, Corona, and work by a breezy open window. I've had worse Sundays, and worse work days! Thanks beautiful day...

oh cambridge.

Aaron just left for Cambridge to begin training at his new job. He won't be back until next Friday! But, luckily for me, I decided to join him this weekend to look for apartments. I leave tomorrow night. I really hope we are able to find a great place, so we have something to come home to after our trip. 

We've made things really hard on ourselves as usual and decided to leave for Sardinia the day after graduation and return three days before Aaron starts work. In this three days we have to unload our things from storage, drive them to Boston and move in. We have a habit of doing things like this (hello- camping in DC... with no car... and no home!).

So getting acquainted with the Boston area now and attempting to secure an apartment before we leave seems like one thing that will make this summer a little easier. Now I just need a job....

Can't wait to post about my first experience with Cambridge and Boston!

new home... here we come

Big news! In our hunt for jobs Aaron was offered an excellent position in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We are both so excited for the move, but are sad to have only two more months in Chicago for a very long time. After Europe we will be heading almost directly to Boston. Though I've never been, I've heard such wonderful things about Boston. I'm really looking forward to starting a new life there. Life for the first time as a non-student! I've been combing through Craigslist looking for apartments, and may even go in April with Aaron to look at a few. I don't want to get my hopes up - its hard to move (as I learned this summer in DC) - but I think Boston will be a great new place to get to know! Yay!

much to hope for...

Aaron has been gone to DC and Boston for interviews the past few days, leaving me here to my own devices. Which has been pretty convenient actually since my time has been spent working on finals. But tonight he returns, and tonight I finish a paper to finish my school work for the quarter. Yay!

Aaron having interviews has been really great for us mentally. It offers the promise of future employment (ahem... salary) as well as potential locations for our life next year.  But all of his success reminds me of the lack of my own in the job search area. Aaron has a lot going for him that I might be lacking as far as professional experience and definable skills, but he has one secret weapon I'm going to try to use to my advantage. His career services person has been a wonderful help in making he's job search successful, and she has offered to help me as well. Oh, how I hope she can!

Lets hope for a safe return for Aaron, successful completion of finals, and jobs for the both of us! Here is Aaron before he left. Hopefully there will be more to smile about upon his return.