I have not updated this humble blog in a while because I just returned from a short three-day break in Los Angeles after three weeks in San Jose. In the last month, I was consulting for Meg Whitman’s gubernatorial campaign Web site, meg2010.com.
California farmland, just outside of Fresno County, March 5, 2009. Taken with my iPhone.
Now, I could explain what I was doing, but I would rather someone else’s reporting explain it. Here is an article that was in my Google Alerts about what Tokoni and the Whitman campaign are planning for the next few months.
What I do want to share over the next few posts are small vignettes about my time out there. Having someone like myself who has spent the majority of her life east of the Mississippi, then living in a laid-back state—culture shock doesn’t scratch the surface. But I did get to work at a start-up and I did get to work in the Bay area for a few weeks, which were two accomplishments I wanted to achieve in my professional career.
My boyfriend said that getting laid off was going to be the best thing to ever happen to me. Begrudgingly, I think I agree. If I wasn’t laid off, I wouldn’t have been able to fly out to California on a week’s notice to work on a campaign. That’s the beauty of not having a job, not having a mortgage and or kids, and really not knowing what to do with your life at that moment in time.
Oh yeah. I have a new job as a Web producer for a state and local government Web site. That’s another post for a later time, but I’m still staying in D.C. (Which is great, because there are few things that make me want to jump up and down in excitement: Among them include D.C. summers.)
