False Starts and Semi-New Beginnings

I am in a season of semi-new beginnings. I have moved into a new apartment but I've moved back to a town that I lived in as a student for 6 years. I have a new position that will begin in a couple of weeks but it's at the University I have been a part of for a long time. Even this blog is a semi-new beginning. I started it once a year ago and never really got into it, so it's sat here...just waiting for me to get started again, so I'm giving it another try.

Semi-New Beginnings are interesting things. They aren't all shiny and new. Honestly while they are as full of potential as any other beginning, they also come with the baggage, both good and bad, of previous experiences, of previous disappointments and previous successes. So I'm here, trying to figure out what exactly is ahead in this next year. A year that is sure to be full of things that are new and things that are old hat and things that are somewhere in between.

For now I am trying to chase the lonely quiet out of a new apartment. It's a nice place, full of light and space, with tall ceilings, but it was a bit of a bumpy ride getting here. First of all, I decided to take advantage of this particular apartment's furnished option, but when I got here on Sunday only half of the furniture is here, which makes settling in rather difficult. We spent all of Sunday afternoon unloading cars and starting to organize the apartment. After a few hours my parents (who had come to help me move in) and I realized that the air conditioning wasn't working. What happened next was a whirlwind of calls to apartment management, decisions and changed minds until I ended up in a model apartment, overnight bag and dog in tow. Today I spent the whole day waiting around in the cold if impersonal model waiting and waiting and waiting to get back into my new place. After several delays Sancho the dog and I made the commute back down the block to my new place and I've finally started trying to settle in, my old friend Van Morrison playing from the sound system plugged in behind the boxes.

So...I'm a bit behind where I wanted to be on getting things unpacked and put away. It's a process, I suppose, any time one moves. But my process seemed to have a few false starts along the way.

But, I'm here now, moving in and trying my hand at this blogging thing once again. It should be an interesting year, even though I'm currently feeling rather unsettled. To be honest, my life is nothing like I'd hoped it would be at this point in time. It's not all bad, it's not all good, it's just different. Very different. I know eventually I'll get settled in and find my way, but for now I'm just flying solo and figuring things out one day at a time.