Good Timing

I'm 95% certain that blogging while moving is a terrible idea. Annnnndddd yet, I'm doing it. Alivia (nickname: The Wise One) is also moving and lined up a whole bunch of fabulous bloggers to guest post while she moves, and I am lucky, lucky, lucky to be in their company with my guest post on her blog today. Check it out, if ya like.

My guest post on her blog actually went up at the exact best moment it possibly could have. I was sitting at Whole Foods, having temporarily given up my quest to buy a book for class next week, about to have a mild breakdown in the form of whathaveIdonewithmylife and canIreallyhandleallthis?! You know how those mid-move challenges - like figuring out how to work your new shower, finding the right bus route, making room for the 17,000 hangers you don't need, remembering how to sleep without air conditioning - all start piling up after a while? Well, I had watched a mountain of them form and was bracing myself for the avalanche. I sat down at Whole Foods, took a series of deliberate deep breaths, and grabbed my phone as a distraction. Who says twitter isn't good for anything?

Alivia's tweet about my guest post popped up in the first few tweets I scrolled through and I clicked through to her blog to check it out. It was the reminder I needed. I'm here because I think I have something to give to the world. There's an authenticity to it, an energy brewing. And I'm following that because I think it's the very best I can do.

The answered to my panicked questions arrived with peace: My life is fine and yes, I can really handle this. Even more so, my life is good, and I think I can thrive on this. And then I went on to eat my lunch.

All in all, this move had been the easiest move I've ever made. But it's still a move and I am still adjusting. I'm also handling the new school/job administrative paperwork crap that I hate and am not particularly good at navigating. I'm looking forward to sitting down and writing (for real) about a whole bunch of things, including my last few days in DC and moving. My brain feels forever fried and I'm exhausted, so it will have to wait at least a day or two. I do want to keep with the practice of blogging (with the hope of keeping with writing), so I'm going to try to post on a regular basis, even if it's not a whole lot more than a barely-coherent brain-dump. I just don't want to fall into the pit of not writing, the way I did in law school. So I guess, I am making good on my warning that this space might become a bit disheveled. A bit of a muddled mess.

ANYWAY. I hope you all are having a great week. (We are mid-week, right?)