Austin Ho
(By Lazlo) Everything's pretty much official now: we're moving back to Austin in less than a week. I interviewed with a nonprofit org associated with a denomination named after a MAJOR REFORMATION PLAYER (think major), and they liked me. I'll be doing tech support for people who take care of orphans, old people, and disaster victims. Honestly, it's more than I was hoping and praying for. My mental template for the organization I wanted to work for was Mennonite Central Committee -- and this is as close as you can get in central Texas -- but I thought I was going to end up working someplace more like SALLY BEAUTY SUPPLY. (Yes, I applied for a tech support job at Sally.) So December 14, Baby and the girls will be flying and CHET/BARTON and I will be driving from Los Angeles to Austin. Chet is flying in from Austin just to help us pack our stuff into into two 6'x7'x8' "cubes" (really rectangular prisms) and make the arduous drive through the deserts of Arizona and west Texas, and therefore wins the coveted FRIEND OF THE DECADE award.
We have a place to live, too. We'll be renting an apartment within walking distance of several Austin institutions, including fixture of my junior high and college years DART BOWL (formerly CAPITOL/CAPITAL BOWL -- I remember it being spelled both ways), a fancy newish HALF PRICE BOOKS, and GINNY'S LITTLE LONGHORN. It's going to be the baddest.
I never imagined when I started this blog -- childless, bored, overburdened with free time -- that almost four years later I'd be writing it not primarily for the people we left behind in Austin, but the people we're now leaving behind in Los Angeles. So if you're our friend and you live in LA, expect some features gearing toward your demographic soon. Feel free to make suggestions.
If you're used to calling me on my work cell phone (the number that starts with 487), you should get out of the habit. Call Kate's cell phone instead.
Also, I submitted my real last assignment for school yesterday at lunch. Woo hoo!
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!
ok... i've resigned myself to the fact that you guys are leaving. but seth and i are very sad to see you go. now that we know you are going back, and so is richard we will definitely give austin a visit. kate: note how i wrote "visit" not "permanent move".
i know you are sad to leave CA. and i know that all of your friends there are sad to see you go.
but we are counting the minutes! central texas will finally feel a little more like home for us, too, once you're back.
This is terrible.
I love you guys.
I love you terrible.
Or something like that.
I really don't want you to go, please.
u no leafings plz!
kthxbai
i have to say. this has made our final weeks in "paradise" pretty dismal. i think xie and i are both depressed that we're going to come home to no lazlo and baby… and babies.
we have so enjoyed your company and watching wren grow and now we feel like we're gonna miss out of see jane get big.
argh. xie is right we will definitely be making some trips out there.
I can't believe we don't even get to say goodbye! That alone makes taking this job feel like a mistake (mine not yours!).
i have to say. this has made our final weeks in "paradise" pretty dismal. i think xie and i are both depressed that we're going to come home to no lazlo and baby… and babies.
we have so enjoyed your company and watching wren grow and now we feel like we're gonna miss out on seeing jane get big.
argh. xie is right we will definitely be making some trips out there.
I can't believe we don't even get to say goodbye! That alone makes taking this job feel like a mistake (mine not yours!).