Week 1: Bikes, Batteries, Bushes, and B@#f (2 of 2)

Wednesday night, I had the wonderful idea of eating pasta that was in my cooler bag since St. Louis. I had refreshed its ice every morning and it smelled and tasted ok, but it was SO not ok.  I woke up at 3am on Thursday morning sicker than a dog and wasn't able to pull myself together until 8am to begin my journey through the desert to LA. The gas station attendants probably thought I was incredibly hungover as I purchased 2 bottles of water, grunted, and looked like hell. The 4 hour drive seemed to take forever, but I made it through the LA traffic and FINALLY made it my destination after 30 hours in the car. Even Nala had looked at me on the third day of travel like, "What the hell, Mom? Again?" 

(Clearly, she was really upset...)

I arrived at the house, took a picture of the view, but only had my sights set on a bed.

I didn't have orientation until later that night so I took the essentials inside from the car and tried to nap for a bit, but I spent most of the day filling in friends and family about the house and the drive. Later, I decided to bring in everything from the car so that it wasn't sitting outside, but it proved to be too much for me and fell asleep face first on my bed without setting an alarm. Thankfully, I woke up at 6:15pm and orientation wasn't until 7 so I scrambled around nauseously trying to pull myself together and just as I was walking out the door I had to turn around and run to bathroom. I really didn't want to miss orientation though so for the 4th time that day I pulled myself together and made it to General Assembly in Santa Monica. 

Orientation was really informative and reminded me of why I had just driven 30 hours and moved my entire life across the country. Everyone was very welcoming and comforting which was a nice end to a pretty awful day. And they took pity upon me and let me leave a little early.

36 hours later and about 5lbs lighter, I finally emerged on Saturday morning to go to the mothership - Target :) And Sunday, I finally got to see the ocean and read my UX book in Palisades Park. It was pretty great.

More to come on my first week at GA! 

For those of you who have no idea what I'm studying, this video should help: What the heck is UX Design?