Newness

I start my new job tomorrow. I am not sure what to expect, what with it being a new position and all. I am excited and nervous, especially about the commute. I'm leaving at 7am to be safe.

Yeah, speaking of, I am going to now be an early-to-bed person. I will begin my wind-down at 9pm so that I can be sleeping by 10pm, because I will have to wake up at 5:45 or 6. What? Who am I? It used to be that 10pm was when I got started!

OK, gotta enjoy my last bits of free time tonight!

I HAVE A JOB!!

Yep, this morning I accepted a job with Housing Northwest. I start on Monday the 17th. It is a new position, and I will be working with a couple of other people in a high-rise apartment complex in downtown-ish Portland. My colleagues' main focus will be leasing all of the apartments and I'll do a little of that but will focus more on community building with the residents and doing some residence-life-like programming. I will also be supervising Resident Managers, who are students who work in the building. It is a similar gig to being an RD but different in that we lease apartments to students who attend several Portland colleges, so our relationship with them is more landlord-tenant, and also I will be living off-site! Yay! I will be living in Vancouver, about a 45 minute commute during rush hour. But the apartment was the best deal I found of the safer/good quality places, so I'll do the commute. I am going to check into riding the Max (the public light-rail) to see if that would shorten my commute and save money.

If you want, you can check out Housing Northwest's website. I'll be doing the "Student Housing in Portland" part.
Housing Northwest

affair at the jupiter hotel

This is a website for a cool art event we went to this weekend. It is in an area of Portland that was featured in Budget Living magazine a few issues ago. I'd recommend going next year if you're in the area!
affair at the jupiter hotel

And here is a link to an article about the event:
It Doesn't Get Any Artsier Than This!