070109
no pictures - just moving tales.
how can i make pictures when i can’t find my cameras yet! (or my clean underwear, dammit!!)
but i am now moved and settling into my new home - even with boxes and piles, it feels so homey already to me. i LOVE my new place. it is a little different to arrange it, without walls and “proper” rooms, but it is fun! i love the open-ness, but realize i need a secret and calm nest for sleeping, so i am making one. i have ceiling fans - and the shower is for a tall person - things WORK - a window in the bathroom - i could go on and on about the small details that please me. the moving felt very hard, which was strange, as i have NOT acquired new things since the last move. my poet came to help on his one day off and though i was trying to be tough and self-sufficient, i *needed* him. and am grateful. then i hired my boss’s son and a friend to do the bigger things and the boxes (and boxes… and boxes…) of books and artStuff and they were amazing!
King Tubby seems to like the new place and actually stepped outside the door this morning. i am hoping he will return to his outsideCat status SOON - because cat boxes - ICK. at least he has stopped the yowling of last month.
not only have i made a transition of environment, also this is the week that my job transition is made. i am now only working 24 hours/week. gulp. i have looked forward to this reduction, in conjunction with the winding down of our program, for a couple of years. i did not anticipate that i would no longer have my freelance job at the time though. of course, you can just never know what will happen. but i decided to make the leap anyway. maybe i am foolish. i am going to be stunningly poor. hopefully, i can creatively overcome that problem, but if not, well … we’ll see. gulp.
so. it is a new life now.
even though i am exhausted and a little fearful - i am happy! very!
20090702 12:33 pm
good luck with your new beginning. Perhaps this will bring some new emotions out of you that you can impart to your luscious photos! We recently were informed at my job that we are now on 35 hour weeks, along with the appropriate drop in pay. I am quietly psyched about the extra precious hour I get a day. Lets turn this new time into something wonderful!
20090703 12:34 pm
Ah, I understand completely about the cut in work hours. Because I lost my job at the end of May. As you may recall, I wasn’t thrilled with it anyway, but…My positiion was eliminated. At first I was happy, but I have been in an artless-crying-every-day pit of misery ever since. I will get through, somehow, though.
Congrats on your new apartment! I am very happy for you! It looks fantastic!