I feel like I should be saying farewell to Saralies. Silly of me; I’m still living here, but I’ve been hit with a lot of nostalgia for the place to mingle with my excitement this week.

Saralies is where I studied, it’s where I’ve worked since then. Really it is the only place I’ve known apart from home. This is a lot like how I felt when I came here: so thrilled about learning to see - really see - but frightened too about leaving behind everything I knew. It was not much of a risk, really. Home was never more than a thought away.

This time is even less of a step. I will still be living here, just working somewhere else.

I guess I’m worried I’ve built up this transfer too much in my mind, that I’m expecting more from it than it could ever be. I don’t think I have. It isn’t the way forward, just a step in that direction.

Maybe everyone has worries like this before making a change in their life. Maybe not. I’ll find out how things are when I start, and I am looking forward to that.

Haha, wow. Is it really this late? Good thing everything is already taken care of and I’ve got nothing to do today. My friends insisted we celebrate so we got together at my apartment and had a bit of a gathering. Not that rowdy, ‘cuz my friends and I don’t really do rowdy but they did keep me up until the sun. Mostly just talking, reminiscing, sharing ourselves.

Totally worth changing jobs for, may do it again soon.

Today was my last day. I didn’t want it to be sad but when you are saying goodbye to people you like and probably won’t be seeing much of anymore I guess it can’t be helped.

Work was slow. Lots of long, heartfelt conversations and not much productivity. They did like my design. And Seville had had a brilliant idea too! Really if I weren’t leaving it would have been the big thing of the day. As it is I’ll have to keep tabs on the project just to see what comes of it.

We all went out to dinner after; the whole team and Anthea too. I led them all to the same place Mitt took me a few weeks back (the salad is still delicious). Really it was very lovely. I was tempted to say I would stay after all.

Today I gave my new supervisor a call to check up on some details for next week. Oh, and I called Mitt too. It turns out we won’t be working in the same building but they are both part of the Greenwell Complex at Carousel-Kabutah. And he said he was looking forward to working with me. I don’t think it was just because it is his job.

I’m so excited! I haven’t really been sleeping well since I got the news but who could? At least I can use the time to get in some extra work on our current project before I have to say goodbye to it. Just tonight I finished a design for hooking two of the components together which I think is pretty neat. Tomorrow I’ll see what everyone else thinks of it.

Maybe we were a bit too enthusiastic celebrating. Had to work late to make up time but that’s fine, this new project is pretty fascinating. Shame I have to leave the team just as it’s getting started. Least I’m moving on to something great.

Did I mention I’ll be working with Mitt? Not on the same team, maybe not even the same building but definitely in the same city. We’ve been so scattered since graduating, it will be nice to have that connection again.

I got it! I got my transfer! Anthea told me right before lunch, starting next week I will be working in research. I did manage to stay focused the rest of the day but it was not easy. Especially since the announcement came with a large amount of information I will need to to familiarise myself with before starting.

So nice out in the fresh air. Reann and I had so much fun last night we decided to meet up again today. Right now we are sitting up on Chesa Hill for lunch watching boats on the harbour. There are ducks nearby.

This is great. I haven’t really made time for quiet days like this since I graduated, maybe longer. It’s always been work or idle distractions at home. Or nights out. Those are great but not the same.

It is very pleasant up here, so nice to relax. Things are quiet at work again now that we are finished with our last project. None of that belongs up here anyway. I am going to relax, enjoy the air, enjoy the grass, enjoy the sun, look out over the ocean and the shape of the world with all my my eyes and marvel at the hollows filled with water before me.

And did I mention the ducks?

Haven’t heard back yet. I think that’s a good sign. Anyway I called Reann earlier to see if he’d be up for a night in the city so I really must dash.

I put in for that transfer again. Should go through this time. Meanwhile I still have to get started on these specs.

One day, that’s all I get for rest. One night and half a day for sleep and turns out there are only so many times I can watch Toniette’s farewell series so quickly before burning out on it. I didn’t think that was possible.

My mind is like a band pulled tight right now. So much energy and nowhere to put it. At least testing is done and clear so I should be free to reapply for that research transfer tomorrow.

Urgg. I feel dead. At least that is done with now.

Gonna sleep right through the next two days.

So far the new copy is holding up. Too tired to say more right now.

Yeah, I’m feeling a bit silly right now. Seville finally found a solution to our problem. Turns out the copy we were working with became corrupted somehow. That one is in storage pending further study now and we are working on a copy created fresh from our designs.

So far it looks clean, although we do have to work longer hours to go over everything again if we are going to pass this project in time.

Drat, drat, drat! It didn’t work!