Pending Changes

I’ve avoided writing anything detailed about the changes happening in my life for a while now, mostly out of fear of “jinxing” something (and because I needed to get to a place where I was OK just talking about some of them). “My bio”:http://creativecommons.org/about/people#31 on the “Creative Commons”:http://creativecommons.org “staff listing”:http://creativecommons.org/about/people has been updated for a while now, but I haven’t mentioned it here: starting a couple weeks ago, I’m the new CTO(Chief Technology Officer) at Creative Commons. I’ve told some friends that this is the first job in years I don’t really know how to do[1], and that’s a pretty exciting place to be for me.

This change in position at work has led to the second big change in my life, one that was given away by a commenter “back in April”:http://yergler.net/blog/2007/04/05/1132-westover/. Next month, I’m moving to San Francisco. I’ve actually been working from the office in SF this week, getting up to speed on things. I was intending to look at neighborhoods so I’d know where to look when it finally came time to move out here. I assumed that the sale of the house would be a lingering, drawn-out process, and that in July or August I’d finally convince someone to take the house — “please!” — and be able to move. It’s been a bit faster than that.

The house went into MLS(Multiple Listing Service) on Monday, April 30. On Tuesday we had two showings, and by Tuesday night I had an offer. Wednesday I countered, and by the end of the day my counter offer had been accepted. So yeah, the house sold in under a week[2]. The buyers have already sold their home, and are closing May 24, so our agreement calls for us to close by May 31, with possession 7 days later.

So this week I’ve been actually looking for an apartment for “Madeline”:http://flickr.com/photos/nathan_y/tags/madeline/ and myself. Finding an apartment in my price range that will take a dog has been a bit of a challenge, but this afternoon I’m signing a lease for a one bedroom near “Duboce and Church”:http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=duboce+and+church,+san+francisco,+ca&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=65.263254,113.554688&ie=UTF8&ll=37.770308,-122.42913&spn=0.008125,0.013862&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1. I like the location a lot, as it seems pretty close to lots of things (including a park for Maddie) which is important since I’m selling my car before I leave. So yeah, barring something unforeseen, I’ll be living in San Francisco in less than a month. Wow.

fn1. Sure, there were things about being a Software Engineer (my original CC title) or a Technical Support Specialist (my official title at “Canterbury School”:http://canterburyschool.org) that were new to me, but generally, I knew what to do.

fn2. Barring some horrible, intractable issue coming up at inspection next week.