Teumessian Fox

I know I haven’t updated in a while, but I’ve been a little busy looking for an apartment in Baltimore and trying to figure out what I need to do to start this Internship that Big Huge Games is setting me up with. Yeah, they gave me an internship instead of a flat out job, which is a little disappointing, but I can kind of understand that it’s been a while since I’ve been immersed in the whole game development thing, and because of that, I didn’t do the greatest job of demonstrating knowledge of optimization and how the hardware works with what you are coding. I’ve ended up looking at it as kind of a probation period since they said the good people get promoted to actual programmer in a reasonable amount of time. They’ll also be paying me enough that I should be able to support myself and still have a little fun on the side, even as an intern, which at least gets me out of my parents’ house. I’ll still be a little poor for a while, but I don’t mind being poor for a little bit longer.

So I found a place in Timonium that should be very close to work, which will be nice. I might even be close enough that I could ride a bicycle to work instead of driving so I don’t turn into a fat bastard from all this sitting around doing nothing. I’m hoping this place will be a decent place to live, but it seems to be pretty much impossible to tell without having lived there. Review sites are basically worthless since most people don’t bother doing any reviewing if the place was good and all the people who complain about pest infestations or whatever probably only have themselves to blame. I did end up staying completely away from one area based on several complaints of having windows broken and things stolen, which is probably the fault of the area they were in, rather than the reviewer leaving food around the house. I’m hoping this’ll be a tolerable place to live and I won’t have to hound maintenance to constantly fix problems, but we shall see.