the biannual move

things in my life are actually right along these days. last week i was offered and accepted a job at a place called the cottonwood gulch institute, a place in NM that does expeditions with midschool and highschool aged kids. thankfully my responsibilities will not include trekking with them, because i'm pretty sure i'd get sick of that. as the museum naturalist at the gulch i'll be preparing ecology lessons and managing the herbarium collection on the camp premises. i think the sealer for me to accept this position was the idea of spending summer in a cabin/shack without electricity.

accepting a job is good for a variety of ways. i think one of the main reasons i've been so bad at updating this thing is because there was often nothing to report these last couple of months. i basically sat in boulder waiting for something to happen, a bit too much sitting for my liking. other than this being prolly one of my dream jobs the gulch is only about half an hour from home! this means i can actually pop in on my parents, something i haven't been able to do since i haven't lived at home since the summer after my freshman year at calvin. new opportunities are abound. i'm also going to relish the idea of having a time to decompress and think about the last couple of months, which, for the majority of them, were not that fun. the renewal of purpose other than being able to have pointless conversations with those who could bear it about CSPAN is exciting.

at the same time i now realise that i'm fulfilling the product of the last yearish of my life or so: the sixth month move. i don't know why, but it always seems that i'm not able to make myself stick around for much longer than six months in a single place. i'm not exactly sure if this transient lifestyle is the best way to build longlasting relationships with other people.

on the plus side, i am getting better at moving, although part of the reason i'm updating this thing is to avoid the duldrums of sorting, but i guess it has to be done.

i may go blog crazy for the next couple of days before entering my no electricity based sabbatical.