Alice hates ...

Hi.

If this were a posting-off, I'm kicking Esther's ass. I've had three this month. Anyway.

I'm stuck at work today, on the federal holiday everyone forgets is a holiday. It's really busy because of it. But I'll manage, since I intend to do nothing besides blog, mess around on the internet and some homework.

So, let's start it off with big, horrible news:

Matt got the Atlanta job.

Yep.

In other news, I picked up Cooking Mama for the DS. It's pretty cool. I'm excellent at making boiled rice so far. It's a game of mini games, where you use the touch screen to complete the steps of the recipe. To chop, to mix, to fry, to crack eggs... I'm enjoying because you can play in short bursts.

Also, I chopped all my hair of on Tuesday. It's shorter than it has ever been. If I can take a good picture, I'll share.

Well, that's all the off topic subjects I can think of. I wish I had more, but now I'm left with only ATL to talk about, so heres-we-go.

Atlanta. This is going to suck.

Well, I guess that's being negative. I told Esther yesterday, she was the first person I saw (online) to tell. I didn't even tell Dad, I let Matt handle that. And I sent mom a painting about it.

So, the details are, it's not the original job Matt was after. It turns out after his interview, they created another job, just for him. And this job also turns out to be much cooler than we expected. So it's a big pay increase, a cooler job, he gets a shiny new laptop, 401K and a pension, three weeks of vacation, and the start date is March 10. It's the farthest he could push it back. They're also going to fly Matt and I out and put us up while he looks for a new place to live.

So in May, I'll head out there. For unknowness. No friends, no job yet, and as the ugly girl in Pride and Predjudice says, "I've no money and no prospects!"

Dad's happy with it. Not happy, excited to have me gone, but he's happy and sees it as a step forward in life. He's promised to come to visit all the time. Mom has promised she's going to chain me up in my bedroom as soon as I come home.

I'm a teeny tiny bit excited too. We're going to try to get a two bedroom place, so we can have visitors if anyone's in the area. Now, I know none of my friends have any reason to be in the area, but maybe one day you'll want to have a little vacation. Other than that, I'm going to visit Texas on the way to Atlanta, since I'll have to drive my car, to see the grandparents I love and can't make it up for my graduation, and hopefully to see Leah for a bit too, before I'm banished to the East Coast. But I'll be home a lot, I imagine, since both my family and Matt's are here. Probably in November for Thanksgiving, not Christmas this year, though, because Jeff's getting married in North Dakota. And I'll try to plan layovers whenever I travel, which will include trips to California (probably) for Coachella this year and to Seattle for PAX.

So as I told Esther, I don't have a smiley face for how I feel- happy, scared, ready to vomit and scream and excited and scared. It would look something like
/X-S + (vomit).