Is it only day 3? Feel like I've been here for much longer. The (work) days are long but bearable. There's so much amazing food in San Diego (maybe it's the big city?). I thought about trying to visit every restaurant in the Gaslamp district. Probably impossible to do.

Haven't really felt the need to go out and meet people yet. Trying to catch up with my projects, deal with the move, and stay on top of work is time consuming. I ran into a floormate who is a viola-ist for the San Diego Symphony (whoa!). There seems to be a very ... heterogeneous mix of people here.

There's a ton of young people in loft building. Almost feels like college. Feelings of nostalgia as I walked into the elevator and there was the familiar stickiness of spilled beer on the floor. Brough a smile to my face. I guess the pricing point, location (right by the party district), laundry units in building, and loft-ness makes it an inherently popular spot for young people.

Work is going well. I'm managing well. We're really doing some huge changes to our product, so it's really interesting to watch how well we handle them all. I've been pretty good about meeting my timelines on work, so I actually ended up having nothing much to do. I managed to help a new employee get up to speed on the boring-ness that is updating our home page. Yay, delegation!

I really want to take a stab at revamping the UI of our product. Fortunately, one of the new features I built into our product makes creating new templates pretty easy, so I may work on it bit by bit over the next few weeks. There's something inspirational about looking at Apple products - why can't we ever get there with webpage UIs? I've never seen a website UI that's blown me away ... what website UIs blow you away?

I still haven't been hit with the sadness that I expected when I left Chapel Hill. It's no reflection on Chapel Hill or the people there. I do find myself missing my family dearly, but feel happy that I'm liberated from that all.

But it's weird that I don't miss CH. Maybe I was secretly really unhappy there, and chose to ignore those feelings given my circumstances then ... who knows.

The car and the moving company should arrive tomorrow. This weekend, I'm going to paint the loft. Chose a nice neutral tan color which shouldn't clash too horribly with any of the furniture and give the whole place a nice feel. I do have these orange/red sofas...