{"id":2635,"date":"2010-03-06T14:09:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T22:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2010-04-24T16:44:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T23:44:23","slug":"starting-to-settle-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2010\/03\/starting-to-settle-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting to settle in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cats settled in faster than I am. This move to San Francisco brought a lot of change with it. I&#8217;m living in a city for the first time, I&#8217;m living with someone again, and although I didn&#8217;t change jobs, east coast company from the west coast has brought all kinds of challenges to my previously defined daily workflow.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/caligulac.at\/images\/caligula_in_ca_sun.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/caligulac.at\/images\/caligula_in_ca_sun_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But I love it here! It will take some time to adjust but I&#8217;m confident that within a few months I&#8217;ll feel very at home here. Part of feeling &#8220;at home&#8221; will be the ability to return to my previous state of high productivity. I think part of the challenge project-wise was that I really took a huge step back from all projects when I started planning my move. It gave me a lot of perspective as I start coming back to all my project work, sorting out where my talents can be best spent, but it&#8217;s also made it difficult to know when and where to jump back on to the moving train. I&#8217;m very fortunate to be working on projects with wildly supportive and productive communities, where taking a break is perfectly acceptable (and supported).<\/p>\n<p>As for &#8220;moving in&#8221; here. there are still boxes everywhere, and probably will be until we get our storage situation sorted out. It will be so nice when the office is finally put together and I stop wondering &#8220;which box is that thing in&#8230;&#8221; when I am looking for things.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/simcoec.at\/images\/simcoe_on_boxes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/simcoec.at\/images\/simcoe_on_boxes_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And getting adjusted to the city? I&#8217;m certainly enjoying the food in San Francisco! I am so used to living on the outskirts of Philly where the food choices tended to be pizzerias and Chinese takeouts &#8211; which I love, but do get a bit tiring, especially since I&#8217;m a bit of a foodie. Having so many cuisines within delivery (or walking!) distance is quite novel, it&#8217;s amazing that I haven&#8217;t gained weight since moving &#8211; indeed, all the walking I&#8217;m doing is starting to have the the opposite effect. People here are great too, I already know so many people in the area through open source and other things there&#8217;s no chance that I&#8217;ll end up bored or feeling isolated, in addition to meeting up for food\/drinks with a couple people already, a couple members of the Ubuntu California team have suggested meetups and offered rides to local events. And I&#8217;ve never really used public transportation so I was apprehensive about not having my own car here, but it turns out that public transportation in SF so far is not scary or very difficult to maneuver, so it&#8217;s been very convenient.<\/p>\n<p>Now, time for some lunch and a movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cats settled in faster than I am. This move to San Francisco brought a lot of change with it. 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