chicken

Today I gave my formal two weeks of notice at my job, accepted the new job in D.C., and am getting on a plane on Sunday evening to fly to Washington for a third time.

This is the apartment-hunting trip. Any natives or former residents of the city, with any last-minute advice, please chime in.

This is also where I apologize for not commenting on your posts, dear friends. I've just been so busy and stressed with the job interviews and all.

Today was indeed a very auspicious day. I love the people at my new job, am relieved about giving up the old one (and I know those last two weeks will be very difficult), and most of all excited about the new city and all the old friends there whom I miss so much.

Most of all I love my wife, Ms. bunnyohare for being so brave and hard-working through this whole process.

The amount of excitement, fear, joy, adrenaline, crying, laughing, rollercoaster emotions is just killing me. Once we secure an apartment I will be able to more fully embrace the "joy" part.

What this person said: Internet Explorer Makes Me ☹.

Just as for the users who commented on this guy's post, Microsoft's "One Font to Rule Them All" (Arial Unicode MS) doesn't quite do it for me. For example, it only contains 148 of the 194 characters in Latin-Extended-B (whereas Microsoft Sans Serif contains 179 of them, but it is a sadly ugly font). Of course, several of the necessary Romanian characters are not among those 148 characters.

*sigh*

Either IE7 needs to come out really soon, or people need to stop using IE6 and start using Firefox and Opera. Grrrrr. Because I'm tired of writing hacks into my code to accomodate this stupid browser.

Just a quick note to apologize for not reading anyone's journal in the past week, much. Work has been kicking my ass this week and I've just been too busy to even eat lunch, let alone read livejournal during lunch. So, yeah. But I think my project is now good enough for the professor to demo at her conference tomorrow, so I am very relieved.

I hope everyone is fine.

Also, anyone on brendon_daily -- I have no idea what day I said the contest was supposed to end, but I'll grade it maybe tomorrow because boy has this been a tough day. I hope the quiz was fun and not too hard -- fun is the whole point!

Kisses.