#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…
#47: Make Your First SF Meal Authentic.
I’m a little late in recording my first meal –– being four weeks and many avocado burgers into California living already –– but walking by a shoddy-looking burger bar today made me think of that first glorious meal I had in San Francisco. It was Wednesday, July 17th. The mission was food. I badly needed sustenance. I was fresh off the East Coast boat and had NO idea where to go, what to eat or how…
#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…
#44: Rock It At Rock-It Grill.
I met these ladies recently at an Alexandria Singers audition. Think I found my pack.