Last day of 'Commute'

As I have said, I am staying with a friend/colleague in St. Anne's (full name: St. Anne's-on-Sea) until I move into town. My friend took today off, so I came in by train. It only took about 35 minutes, but it was a nice 35 minutes past rolling green pastures. Never in any of my commutes around Boston did I ever see chickens (well, live ones, I mean) or herds of sheep (unless you count crowds of commuters as such). Oh, yeah and lots of daffodils and crocuses :)

The last few days really caught up with me yesterday afternoon. By 3PM I was fading. I then realized I had been working since Saturday so this was my 'Friday'. Small wonder I crashed last night. Today I am catching up on all the bureaucratic details; will have lunch with one of my new colleagues and hopefully meet with my Head of Department. I will come in for the AM tomorrow then hopefully move my stuff to my new flat in the afternoon. The place is fully furnished, but will need to buy a bunch of things...will do that Saturday (yeah! Birthday Shopping!!!) Saturday night will be the aforementioned birthday meal and subsequent pub crawl; it'll be nice to see old haunts (and old ghosts) after a few years.

Life is pretty good (except that none of the 4 boxes shipped have arrived....grrr!).

Thanks for all your comments and emails...it really makes me feel less disconnected. I will post later about my thoughts now that I am here and what that may mean for the future in terms of residency, etc. I have been thinking (and having dreams bout) the implications of 'place' and 'identity'.

More, anon :)