Holy cow. In one week, I will have finished my time at IBM (for now) and moved for the third time this summer. It’s been the most hectic and beneficial three-month period of my life, I do believe, and even though August 12 was a million years away when I accepted in April, it’s pretty much here.

It really does seem like yesterday that I finished moving into Queens U and getting my junk set up and then getting on that bus the first day and filling out awesome tax forms, but it also feels like I’ve known this routine and my manager and coworkers for years. I’m finally getting used to how everything works, where stuff is in Charlotte (including the infamous practice of turning from one road onto another road of the same name), and preparing my epically (yes, being heroic or grand in nature) delicious dinner menu on a (nearly) nightly basis, and this right as I’m about to leave it.

I’d like to think that I’m not leaving this permanently, that I’ll be back, but I really have no idea whether I’d be able to get the same position either full-time or part-time, and that’s the catalyst for me up and moving to a large city I wasn’t familiar with, where I didn’t know anyone, and where I had to scrounge to find affordable housing somewhere it only takes a half-hour to commute. I was fortunate to get the summer thing only instead of the summer/fall co-op they claimed was the only hiring position they had in the first place, so whether that can be replicated certainly remains to be seen. I guess I’m saying that I liked the whole experience and would welcome it back were it to welcome me with circumstances as favorable as this time around.

So what next? I’ll move for the fourth time in three months on Thursday/Friday, turn back in all my awesome IBM equipment (I want to keep my ID badge forever and ever, but probably won’t get to), and head north on I-77 for the third and final time this summer. I’ll pretend to relax for a few days, move again, and start the semester grind like a boss (yeah, right). Life could be worse.

Verdict: not just mission successful/complete, but mission accomplished.