Still Trying to Move to Virginia

Usually I stick to the pedagogical writing and educational news here, but I’m going to spend a few minutes on personal things today.

As some of you may know, I left my job at NCTE back in November 2008 to help my mother with the day-to-day things. She’s well, nothing wrong with her. It’s just that she doesn’t go up and down the stairs as easily as she used to, and the household to-do’s were getting to be too much. She needed help, and so I stepped in.

Of course, moving seems easier in theory than it actually turns out to be. The little move from Illinois to Virginia still hasn’t quite been finished, but I’m much closer. We spent the last full week of May packing boxes in Illinois, and I’m leaving tomorrow morning to go finish up that task. My brother and some other folks arrive late Tuesday, and they plan to load the U-Haul Wednesday.

There are still a lot of questions and curiousities. Do I really need all these books? What’s the point of all these papers in all these file folders? Do I have enough boxes?

Will there be a wicked, scary creature on the side of the U-Haul truck? Is there a U-Haul big enough for this many boxes of books and papers?

Will I open a box and find that I packed the cat? Wait, when did I get a cat? I don’t have a cat.

I don’t have many answers, but I know next week at this time, most of my belongings should be in Virginia.

In the meantime, the news stories and blog posts will fall silent again. Look for me to return on Flag Day, and if you wonder how the move is progressing, check my the updates on @tengrrl (public) or Facebook (login required).

[Creative Commons licensed Flickr photo of U-Haul Trucks by roland ]
[Creative Commons licensed Flickr photo of cat by mava ]