Results tagged “Moving” from Mike Sager

I just accepted a new job up in Boston. It's a little bit surreal that I went for it, especially considering how much I liked my old job. But ultimately, I have dreamed of living in Boston for many years, and this has given me the opportunity to actually do it while staying within my chosen career path. There have been several times in my life where I've picked up and moved to another city - I honestly didn't think I'd be doing that for a while again. And yet - here's my chance to live in a place I love... I couldn't say no.

My family is from Boston originally, and I grew up a Red Sox fan since there was no team in DC. I wish to emphasize that the Sox have been in my blood my entire life - I was too young to be crushed in 1986, but I balled in 2003 when Aaron Fuckin' Boone hit that damn homerun off Wakefield. I understand that Boone is very personable, but I still booed him every time he can to bat when he was on the Nationals last year. Loudly. People would stare at me and not understand. I didn't care. Grrr... I was wearing my Sox hat last night, and a friend of mine from Philly accused me of being a bandwagon fan - it was a friendly jab, but I let him know in no uncertain terms that I have always lived and died with the Red Sox - and anyone who's known me a long time knows that.

As I'm wrapping up here in DC, I've been taking more pictures with my relatively recently purchased Nikon D60 - hence the photos that I've posted on this post that are completely unrelated to Boston. Just wanted to add some imagery to the entry.

So apparently new albums by ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead and National Skyline came out on my birthday, and I was COMPLETELY UNAWARE!!! I have since rectified this, and loaded them onto my iPod courtesy the Amazon Music Store. Apple's decision to charge me to remove DRM from music I've already purchased has made me decide that all of my music purchasing from this point forward is happening from Amazon. And yes, I buy my music.

In 2 weeks, I'm moving back to Washington.  So I'm trying to figure out where in the area I want to live.  Do I want to move into the city itself, but have difficulties parking and possibly sacrifice in-state tuition at George Mason?  Do I want to move to Pentagon City which is less convenient, slightly less fun but more economical and the apartments are much much newer.  Then there's the dark horse - Cleveland Park.  Lovely area, lots of stuff, but also not quite as convenient as the other places.

DIFFICULT DECISIONS!!!!

I also have to consider dog-walkage.  Specifically, where I'm going to walk Julius (the unusually intelligent Poodle), and how easily I can run home, walk the dog, and then get back into town for a Happy Hour/Baseball Game.

Several of my friends (JEFF!  ERIKA!) have made it their respective missions to make me move into the city.  It is difficult to ignore their logic/threats as I consider this whole process.  But I also have to ask myself - is it REALLY a good idea to be walking distance to both Stetsons AND the Brickskeller?  Of course, I lived in Pentagon which was walking distance to a Legal Sea Food and I didn't end up eating Chowda every night (CHOWDA!!!!!!!) but...