I'm Here!

Drove up for three days and finally got in yesterday. I have no furniture and everything I plucked out of the car has been tossed to the floor in dispiriting and undifferentiated heaps. But I started a bank account today and I just did a tour of the neighborhood (fresh fruit on the corner! grocery store, coffee shop, AND cool local bar in easy walk!) and I feel frankly ecstatic. The only downside at the moment is that I don't have computer access in the apartment so I'm paying 20 cents a minute to type this at my local UPS store, so I'd better wrap this up. Also, I'm sleeping literally on the hardwood floor in a sleeping bag, and the closest laundromat is two blocks away, and it's pretty darn cold outside. But I'm actually surprised at how happy I already am. Just thought y'all should know. I'll be online again, with real updates and detailed stories, when the cable company gets around to helping us. It may be a few days.