OK, onto post two, catching myself up from my late blog posts. Something about being on time rather than a week behind with my posts makes me feel relaxed. If I have time to catch up on posts, that must mean that the intensity has simmered down a bit. Of course, it would be easy to simmer down from the rolling boil of exams and moving, and starting new job, but I don't know if that's going to keep up. I think the school is starting out kind of slow and relaxed, as several students haven't arrived yet, and some of the teachers also haven't come back yet. Once things get rolling, it's likely it will heat up again. But it's too early to tell what to expect. I suppose if it's well designed it will get more intense at the rate that the teachers and staff can handle.
We've begun house hunting. It's amazing how many poorly designed houses there are. From poor architecture choices to poor design and style choices. It seems like someone could make a good living designing nice houses, but I guess they can also make a good living designing so-so and mediocre houses. But we did find at least one that was quite nice, inside and out (the outside, the nature, is perhaps as important to us as the inside.)
Saturday was a pure fun day. Well, a little work in the morning, but almost all fun together. Today, Sunday, was house hunting and a little fun and some work. This is the same issue I've had previously, that I've got a lot I'd like to get done, but by the time the weekend rolls around, I need a day to just recuperate, and then the next day is filled with life-admin stuff, and there is only a little bit of time for getting ahead on long-term important projects. Perhaps I should say energy, rather than time, since if I was a tireless robot or superhuman I could probably get it all done. Aspirations. In any case, I should finish up this blog post and get to some of the other things that need doing. Like cleaning up my room. One of the exciting things about house hunting is the idea that finally I'll have enough room for my office and storage stuff, so that my office looks as neat as I've always wanted. The ideal thrills my soul. Previously it's always been just barely contained. The thought of having enough space for everything is exciting. But perhaps the issue is systemic rather than environmental. (Meaning, maybe a bigger office with more storage won't fix things) I suppose I'll have the opportunity to find out!
Suzannah doesn't like the heat, or the various tasks she is having to do with finances and domestic type stuff, or being away from friends or family, or the city, and is generally having a bad time, though making a valiant effort to make the best of it. It's hard to get around the fact that we moved here so that I could work at a dream job. She would certainly have preferred to stay where she was. It's incumbent on me therefor, to make the very best of the learning opportunity I'm getting in working here. I think even more than that, I want to help her find some joy here. I'm not sure how yet, and it seems a bit overwhelming, but I haven't yet found a problem I couldn't eventually overcome with enough persistence and experimentation (and prayer).
OK, goodnight all! We're onto the very first chapters of a new book in the Isaac's Life series. ;-)
-IO
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