#51: First Bus Ride On The Muni.
Tough Commute.
#49: Tackle Apt Hunting Like A Full Contact Sport.
Tackle it with a helluva thick skin and chutzpah. Do that and you just might not end up in the Tenderloin. It’s taken me 4 weeks, 3 apartments, 202 emails, 47 miles, 646 [espresso] shots, 7 forms of public transit and 1 college dorm room to discover an inevitable fact about SF: If the apartment hunting process doesn’t chew you up into bite-size, San Francisco bedroom-size pieces, roll you around like fresh Sushi or spit you…
#48: Get A Job At Stanford.
When someone or some company gives you that lucky break, you take it. Right then and there. No equivocations. No hesitations. Only endless thank you’s. Thanks to a little help from a friend (thanks, Drew!) and a couple well-prepped Skype/phone interviews with executives from the Stanford Healthcare Marketing team, I passed Stanford Healthcare’s rigorous interview process. I MADE IT!!! I got the job. When they asked, “Can you be out here in 2 weeks?” I said HELL YES…
#46: Move To San Francisco On A Whim.
Trust me, moving to San Francisco when you’ve never even been here before is a scary, exciting, exhausting, mentally-draining, trying, thrilling, riveting, adventuresome, life-changing and culture-shocking process. I’ve generously listed out some reasons why to do it (mostly for my own convincing really. 🙂 It’s border-line crazy and a little out of left field. You get cold feet and question your sanity –– or what’s left of it. You also probably wonder if you’re losing your…
#45: Last Month Of East Coast Living.
I’m getting my fill of all things East Coast before I move west to San Francisco next month. New England coffee fix from Dunkin Donuts and Tim Hortons. Convenience store stops at WaWa. A couple last minute day trips Ito New York City, the Baltimore Aquarium and my old college town of Richmond, VA. A couple necessary pit stops at the house I grew up in, in Fairfax, VA. A goodbye wave to my backyard of Washington, DC. And… a last…