My first visitor from the U.S.!

Well no sooner did I start to let myself get a little sad about my upcoming move did I immediately get a piece of news that brought me right back to being super excited. Pat is going to be coming to Australia in June for a few weeks, and he's going to try out for some rugby teams out there, which if he gets on, he will probably stay for the whole summer. I'm SO excited to already know that it won't be too long once I get there before I am seeing a familiar face from home.

Some of the back story on Pat is he is actually somewhat responsible for me even being at Google in the first place. He went to Stanford for undergrad and grad school and when I came back from Boston, having quit my job and having no immediate prospects, I ran into him at the beach and he offered to forward my resume to a buddy of his who works for Google. Obviously one thing led to another and I ended up getting the job, which is a job I probably wouldn't have applied for otherwise since I'd never even visited San Francisco prior to moving here so certainly had no intentions of trying to move out here. It is this job that is ultimately taking me to Sydney, where the first person from home I see will likely be Pat, so it's kinda cool how the whole thing is coming full circle.