Lately, I’ve seen some blog posts about leaving work like the highly memorable Goodbye Mercury! and I Quit, so I decided to construct my own post on the matter.

The oddest part of the whole experience was the feeling of relief to be done with work at the same time as the odd feeling from realizing that I really was leaving. The best part of the experience was the nice comments I received from random people in the office when I was making my last walk around the cubes (well, that and the thought that I will never have to answer some question about code that I wrote in 2001). I worst was probably the awkward conversations with some people where I really just wanted to have the somewhat obligatory handshake.

After reading Scott’s post about his vacation between jobs, I was wishing that I had taken off a few days to get caught up on my sci-fi book backlog (around 40 books at the moment), finally get my blog up at zibblog.com, get in some good running and yoga, get some use out of my netflix subscription, and organize my apartment. However, in the end, the book backlog can wait until my next trip to NE, my blog will get up in its own good time, I did some pilates and running over the weekend, and my apartment might as well stay unorganized since I’ll just be moving in a month anyway. For the moment at least, the new job is fun, there’s a lot of work to be done, and it’s nice to be enthusiastic about my work again. In somewhat related news, I’m having a lot of fun doing some AJAX and CSS reading lately, so expect some blog entries on random web technologies soon.

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