Yahooligans
For the two years we were in London, we had a place we called our home address but we were always cognizant of the fact that it was temporary. We’d be leaving and taking our stuff with us, so it never felt quite settled in.
In Hong Kong, I had a place I call home because my family is there and I spent a great deal of time in that jungle of a city that one loves and hates at the same time. Yet I was living out of a suitcase and that, too, was temporary.
In March and April, I went to San Francisco, Austin, San Francisco, Portland, San Francisco - all living out of a suitcase that was a subset of the Hong Kong suitcase.
Now in Vancouver, I’m in my brother’s place where most of my belongings are, but they’re in someone else’s bookshelves or packed away in boxes too deep to retrieve, stowed away in 2003 when I first left Austin for good.
So it’s no surprise that I’m looking forward to the next move. I’ve accepted an offer as an Interaction Designer at Yahoo. Depending on your impressions of the company, this may or may not sound exciting but I can say I’m excited about the possibilities there and the direction they’re headed. Excited enough that I will have to turn down a couple of other places I was also very interested in. Sometimes, I wish I could do it all.
When all is said and done, one of the things I’ll be happiest about is having an answer for any immigration department that asks me “where do you live?”
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