I will be an Epic employee in one month

Faithful readers, I found a new job! I'm going to be a software developer at Epic in Madison, WI. There are so many great things about this prospect that I could write a lot of words. Instead, I'll do a bulleted list.

-I get to be a software developer, something I've always wanted to do but was afraid that I lacked the training for. But I got to prove that I had the skill during the programming test that I took. Yay me!
-The company culture, if I didn't make it clear in my last post, is super chill and unstifling.
-I'll be making ~2.77 times what I did at my last job with a starting salary of $72,000.
-I'm going to have real-people insurance that covers many things including getting a physical, which is something I've been wanting to do for about a year and a half that my old insurance didn't cover.
-I'll be living in Madison which I think is more my style than Chicago: somewhat dense, but not so much crime and much more bike friendly.
-I may get to live in a co-op.

So there you go. My unemployment ends April 6th. I'll spend the time between now and then feverishly packing up my apartment, finishing up my part-time jobs, and saying bye to people. My wife will still be in Chicago and I'll be visiting every weekend, so it's not out of the question that I'll see my Chicago people again after I move.

That's the catch, though: my wife will still be in Chicago. That's a pretty big downside. At least Madison is close to Chicago and it will be temporary. We've spent time apart before (when she started grad school in Chicago while I was finishing my Bachelor's degree) so we know what it's like and that we are capable of it. We've talked it over and we are ready. So now I'm trying to focus on all the positive.

I'm afraid to believe that this is happening. To have found such a sweet job after so much uncertainty seems very unlikely, even though it did happen. At least, I think it happened. I won't believe it until I get my first paycheck.

So I can't know how much more I'll be posting here. Probably not much. Since I'll be leaving so many awesome people behind, I may start some sort of blog so people can keep track of my life. But I don't know about that. Check back in April; if I do start that sort of blog, I'll post here about it.