Talkin' bout the midnight rambler...

Since I'm up late working (well, sitting around waiting for techies to do things so that I can tell them it's still broken), I thought I should write something on here for a change rather than pissing around on Facebook...

So, an update. I'm still working on my project in Charlotte, and it's actually looking like I'll be spending the majority of my time here until around August. Not exactly how I had things worked out - my lovely apartment in Cambridge is sitting empty most of the time (and costing me oodles of cash into the bargain). So Operation Make A Life In Boston, which I set out on back in October, is an unqualified failure. I'm still in touch with a couple of people there but haven't seen them in months, and it really is a place where I leave my stuff and have my mail sent at the moment.

But Charlotte really ain't so bad. True, the city is soulless, ugly and seemingly populated exclusively by bankers, but the weather's gorgeous, I'm enjoying working with the team I'm on and the delights of Charleston are a mere 3 hours(!) down the road. I've been spending most of my weekends down there, primarily to see a young lady with a cute southern name that I've been seeing. So I think it would be fair to say I'm settled down here, in a temporary kind of way.

But what comes next? When I move off this project do I go back to Boston and try again? Do I bow to company pressure and move to their HQ in Utah? Or pick somewhere else to give a go.. New York, San Francisco, DC? I don't think my employers will force me to move to Utah (which is a beautiful but otherwise unexciting place), but at the same time the thought of starting out again somewhere groovier sounds like hard work. While the 3 months in Boston was quite a relief from routine, I've enjoyed the rhythm of going to an office and working with the same people each day in Charlotte. Unless I can persuade the company to set-up a satellite office in one of these places, the idea of working from home isn't too appealing, even if that home were in Greenwich Village. The timing isn't exactly ideal either, what with my lease in Boston running out at the end of September, I'll have only a month between leaving Charlotte and deciding what the hell to do, even if things go to plan.

Plus, I'm missing London a fair bit at the moment, particularly the prospect of drinking beer sitting outside a pub and the snooker, which there is zero coverage of over here... Oh for a pint of Broadside and a proper Sunday lunch...