Moving Forward

I considered a number of options for naming this post.

• Uncomfortably Imminent Changes
• 1,789 Miles Later
• Somebody Saw This Coming, Right?
• On the Occasion of My 654th Trip to Goodwill
• Holy Sh** What Am I Doing?
• Hasta la pasta Austin

I didn’t really consider that last one. In the end I settled on Moving Forward, because that’s what this is about. In a couple of weeks, I’m moving to San Francisco, starting a new job in a library, and will hopefully soon-ish begin work on my MLS (Masters of Library Science).

Whew.

I could say a lot about how I arrived at this decision, but I rather dislike self-justification and long explanations. I’m feeling positive about this change, and hopeful that the whole thing will work out. It’s a risk, certainly, and I don’t know how things will turn out, or if I will like living in San Francisco, or working in a library, or being back in school, or how any number of variables will combine into a whole. It feels as if there might be infinite possibilities for the future right now, which is for me, what’s incredibly interesting about taking risks like this. If you knew how everything would turn out beforehand, there wouldn’t be any point in doing it.

The Usual Questions:

1. Yes, my husband is coming.
2. Yes, I know it’s expensive in SF.
3. I have family in California.
4. I really do understand “expensive.”
5. I’ve only been to CA three times before.
6. Expensive. YES. I know!

In any case, that’s why I’ve been rather silent on the blog lately. The adventure I referred to last week was flying to CA and interviewing for the job that I got. It takes a lot of mental and physical energy to dig oneself out of one’s comfortable, familiar rut and create change, and so my normal crafting energy has been diverted to that cause for some time now. I hope to get back in that groove whenever I manage to actually find a place to live in SF.

Meanwhile, the battle to figure out how to get rid of all all the crap we somehow accumulated in our house continues.