I'm Still Here!

I think once I get on a schedule it will be easier to figure out this blog business. But Hi!!

The last two weeks have been crazyyy--I am just starting to play phone catch up with some of you as my schedule gets more finalized. Last week was Orientation, which means we had a lot of meetings and did a lot of bonding--a minor league baseball game, a potluck, services, office lunches and dinners and coffee--you name it, maybe we did it. We have just been settling in and exploring (I have become more comfortable driving which is super, and everyone has been more than nice about helping) and watching tv. I made a trip to the Mississippi Museum of Art which was beautiful and quiet (pictures to follow when I get home), and Lauren and I biked a bit on Sunday after playing kickball with the office at the hight of Jackson heat, when it is 96 degrees and so super humid. Blech. Also yesterday we joined the gym, today we joined the Temple--we are just joiners, I think. And I have been in contact with this comic woman named Martha who is maybe 87 who runs the Jackson Choral Society, and I am certainly going to sing with them in the fall. So really that's what up. I have sort of gotten my barings, which means in the next few weeks maybe I will figure out how to get to work (...it takes 10 minutes and is just so easy. As you all know, I never know where I am...).

I think that's it? It doesn't really feel like that's it though. Work is great--we are working on writing our "this is my job" stories to be prested to staff this week and reading over the curriculum and getting ready for this ginormous conference that we plan for the end of June. It's a lot of things. But at work there isn't homework. And that's just so funny. Also the office has a book club. We are reading that Dragon book by the Sweedish dead man that you read, Elissa. So far it is good but I start reading right before bed and fall asleep in the middle of a sentence. So I hope I know what's going on.

Also I keep trying to drive to museums and things but everything is sort of always closed. I'm working on figuring out how to go to places when they are open.

Okay. Maybe that really is it? EMAIL ME ALL THE TIME, I will write you back. Or try to call. Remember I am an hour earlier. I am learning all about how Central Time is the "best time." Perhaps it is.

This was a funny blog.

Love,
Claire