hello from raleigh...
i've got that feeling you get when you want nothing more than to lie down and go straight to sleep but then you realize you still have half the day left. it's been good, though. flew in yesterday. that was exhausting enough. had four different gate assignments in chicago, and i found out about each change just as i was getting to the next gate. definitely got my exercise for the day running around that terminal. also got a mild case of food poisoning from a grilled chicken wrap at the chili's to go in o'hare, but that was nothing more than some discomfort on the plane ride. but after getting in to raleigh and claiming my bags and getting the rental car and driving to trevor's place and chatting with trevor for a bit i went out to the cheesecake factory (had a salad and some egg rolls -- no cheesecake, sadly) with a guy i met on connexion.org. haha. thomas. you might be hearing more about him in the future. good times.
today has been just as crazy, and i don't know what i would have done without the gps on my iphone. barely made it to the interview in chapel hill on time. well, i can't really say that it was on time. trevor told me that it takes 30 minutes flat to get there, so i allowed myself 45 minutes because i wanted to be early. it took 44 minutes. between construction and rush-hour traffic i ended up walking into the building at 8:59am, but by the time i found the office it was about 9:01. grrrrrr. but it went well, i think. two and a half hours. bit crazy. bit exhausting. damn difficult questions, and i floundered on a couple (didn't help that i was already dog-tired), but i think i recovered well enough. we chatted a lot. and after the interview she walked me out and showed me a few things, told me some of the office politics. good sign, right? fingers crossed. i'm supposed to hear back within a week or two.
after that i drove out to durham to trevor's office to tell him how it went. he gave me directions over the phone, didn't give me an address. ended up driving 20 minutes in the wrong direction. lol. but it was good to see the countryside a bit. had lunch at a panera at a mall on the way back to raleigh, then decided to check out a gym. i'd been doing research online of the different gyms in the area and this seemed to be the best one. it was freaking amazing. put mizzou rec to shame, and if you've ever been to mizzou rec it's one of the top college gyms in the nation. or at least it was when it re-opened a few years ago. that was a big thing for them. this place -- lol. it's just beautiful. had a guy take me on a tour and i was all giddy by the end. yeah, i signed up. no contract and he said that there was a promotion just ending where if you're referred they waive the $274 sign up fee. so he grabbed some random passing member and had her refer me. :) it's kinda expensive, a little more than what the rec center was, but on my new salary i'll be able to afford it. and if i cancel within two weeks i won't be charged anything. i figure i'll hear back from my job within two weeks, so might as well, and a month of dues that i won't use is a heck of a lot cheaper than the $274 fee. and yes, i realize he could have been playing me. he was a damn good salesman and, let's face it, i'm a bit naive. but it's an f-ing gorgeous gym. i'm getting excited.
going out tonight. more to come later. more flights tomorrow. i don't think i like flying.