The Geekess

Yesterday I accepted the job offer from Intel. I did some negotiating and ended up with a fat sign-on bonus on top of what they offered me originally. It's funny to think that I'll be the highest paid person in the house. (Jamey would make more than me if he worked full time, but he's happy being part-time. Mike quit his job at AMD and is currently living on his investments.) My starting salary is $7K less than what my mom makes as a teacher with over ten years of experience. My dad told a bunch of his teacher friends about my offer and they all said, "We're in the wrong business!"

I start at Intel on July 23rd, a week and half after Jamey and I get back from our honeymoon. I had originally picked that date without looking at my calendar; I discovered later that that is the first day of OSCON (the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland). I really wanted to go, and my USB talk proposal got accepted, so I was a little worried that I might have to miss it or change my starting date.

It turns out that my manager was willing to let me spend my first week at Intel at OSCON! He said, "A few days doesn't matter; we've got long term plans for you." The first two days of OSCON are expensive tutorials, and the official start day isn't until Wednesday. So I'll show up at Intel for first day training on Monday, work on Tuesday, and then spend the rest of the week at OSCON. Pretty sweet!

It also looks like I'll be doing more USB work at Intel. (My manager said something about "owning USB" which is Intel speak for being responsible for USB code.) I want to write the core chunk of usbfs2 before things get hectic in June, but I'm sure there will be tweaks and additions to the code this summer. Speaking of which, I want to get back to testing my latest control transfer patch.

Current mood: pleased

Jamey and I are all moved into Mike's house. It's great to have a dishwasher! We even got to leave our clothes in dryer last night. It was fabulous. The bedroom is a mess of boxes, and we're still trying to figure out where desks and stuff should go. I'm off next to do some shopping, since I'm sick of unpacking. I figure I'll do some hacking this evening when I get back.

My big news of the week is that I ran into Kristin, the woman who works in the Open Technology Group who got me the job interview. She said my job offer from Intel is in the mail! I'm excited, but a little worried that it hasn't arrived yet. They sent it right when my address forwarding kicked in, so it might be delayed or (worse) stuck somewhere. That would suck.

We signed a housing contract with Mike today. I've started cleaning out old papers (including four years worth of notes) and going through a bunch of stuff I don't want anymore. On a related note, anyone want to buy our couch, table, or twin bed?

There's so much to pack, and so many people/businesses to update our address with.

It was a beautiful day today. Hopefully it's nice on Friday when I have my interview so I can wear my pin-striped skirt. *grins*

Current mood: bouncy