Whew! Well, we moved. Despite a too-small truck and an apartment that still wasn't ready when we got there, we managed to get everything shifted and the truck back on time. Unpacking is proceeding slowly...both of our collections need to be weeded, so to speak, and because the closet/storage space is not quite as big as it seemed before we got our things in, we will probably be indulging in "creative organizing" activities for quite some time.
Unfortunately, we moved in with some outstanding maintenance issues that the apartment complex managers and maintenance have been slow to deal with. We keep on going to the office and complaining that little or nothing has been done, and they keep on taking lists of our needs and promising that maintenance staff will be in ASAP, and we keep on coming home every day to find that the same issues are outstanding. It's not been the best of ways to start our tenancy.
The good news is that our balcony and the bedroom window faces out over the canal, so the place is nice and quiet and we get lots of cool breezes. Given a little more time to settle in and decorate and it should even feel like home!
In my work life, I'm mostly trying to catch up on some of my professional association duties. I've been setting up Roundtable Discussion sessions for the Florida Library Association conference in Jacksonville in April--or trying to, at least! Very few people seem to be interested in participating this time around. More locally, I've just been named the Webmistress for the Broward County Library Association. The "interesting" part about this job is the Board is a little...fuzzy...on exactly how one sets up a web site, and as the last person in my position just "handled" things without telling anyone what she was doing and why before disappearing into the ether, it's hard to retrace steps and figure out where the site is hosted, how to get access, and so forth. This is not really my forte--I know how to create/edit the files and change/update the site, but I'm not so experienced in buying/registering/transferring domain names, choosing an ISP to host the site on their server, and so forth. Made even harder when you don't know anything about what the last person did except that she seems to have acquired, paid for, and registered everything personally instead of in the name of the association! Well, technicalities aside, I'm excited about the chance to brush off and improve my web authoring skills, and giving the site a much-needed content and aesthetic overhaul.
In dance, I think I may finally be getting over my year-long-if-not-longer plateau and moving forward again. Maybe it was taking a couple of workshops over the winter; maybe that I challenged myself a bit by incorporating some new music and zills into a couple of my performances. A week and a half ago, I was one of the performers at my dance teacher's last performance parties at the Sawadee Thai Restaurant. I performed a four-part show, which included a slow veil section and some improvised zill playing in some of the faster parts. I guess the stars were in the right alignment or something...I managed to pull off the best bellydance performance I've ever done! The audience was enthusiastic, and my teacher and my classmates were also impressed. Not quite sure where the dance ability demonstrated in that show came from, but it's nice to know that it's there, and that with a little work and a little luck I can maybe do that well more consistently!
Just about time for me to pack up here. Better save any other news for later, I suppose.