OK, I will be honest,it is all a bit overwhelming. New job, new city, new people, new names to remember, new electronics to learn. New processes at work. New transportation methods. New (temporary) home.
Don't forget your new keys, your new blackberry, your new laptop, your new bags. Don't forget the names of the ten new clients you met today, and the ten things they each blackberried, emailed, text-ed, called, left a voicemail (work, home or mobile, three new numbers) or IM'ed you about. Don't forget your workout clothes, your lip balm, your purell. Don't forget who you said you may meet for drinks tonight, brunch tomorrow. Don't forget where you said you would be meeting, and that you need to figure out how to get there. Don't forget your fourteen new usernames and three new passwords. Don't forget the laundry you dropped off, the dry cleaning you need to drop off (and that you need to find a cleaners). Don't forget to pick up a special card for washing machines and dryers in the building, and to get a monthly metro pass. Don't forget to pay the bills and go through a month or more of mail from Atlanta. Don't forget to fill up the rental car with gas before you return it. Don't forget it's your brother's birthday tomorrow. Don't forget to find something to eat, hopefully healthy. Don't forget your iPod, nor its charger or headphones (Don't forget to add some new tunes, as you are tired of the ones on there). Don't forget that special pillow for your back so that you won't be stiff after a 6 hour flight. Don't forget to deposit that check. Don't forget to print out that contract to read on the plane. Don't forget to call back your friend(s). Don't forget to call your Mom. And Grandmom. Don't forget to review your sister-in-law's website for legal issues. Don't forget to book the car service to get from JFK back to your apartment, be sure to remember the username and password to charge it to work. Don't forget your three charger cords, your two books, your work ID badge, your driver's license (which, don't forget, you need to change to New York). Don't forget to get original receipts for company reimbursements, and to keep them in a safe place, and to file an expense report and mail in the receipts so you can pay American Express (which is late, don't forget). Don't forget to get that software put on your new laptop so that you can actually finish a contract. Don't forget to learn how to use that software. Don't forget that someone told you the 101 highway could be backed up today due to construction. Don't forget what rental car company owns the car you are driving as you drive into the drop off lot.
Don't forget that your new calendar software at work time-shifted appointments between the time you put that flight on the calendar (PST) and when you moved to New York (EST), resulting in the reminder with your flight time showing up on your blackberry calendar later than the actual flight. Resulting in you missing your flight.
Resulting in you-- me --sitting in the San Fran airport for 7 hours, hoping to get home 14 hours later than I was supposed to be home for something less than $600.
How am I feeling now? Really great about my decision, but overwhelmed with it all.
And, I am still stuck at the airport.
But this felt good to type it all out.
Deep breath...
UPDATE: Got on the red-eye. At least I am headed home...New York...Home....
