So, Jamey and I live in Princeton, NJ now. We have been here a little over 2 months (which is hard to believe). The cross country move took 5 days, and the itinerary was as follows:
--Abilene-> Little Rock, where we saw Jamey's college roommate and his wife, and my brother and his girlfriend.
--Little Rock -> Nashville, where we saw Jamey's (step)sister Jennifer.
--Nashville -> Durham, where we "dropped off" Emily and Vadim and their belongings.
--Durham -> Burke, VA, where we stayed with Jamey's sister (Jenny) and her family. Sydney (her daughter) had just gotten her wisdom teeth out, but she was a real trooper!
--Burke -> Princeton, where we live. :) My parents kindly came down from Syracuse to help us unload and move in.
Since we arrived in mid-July, we have also enjoyed visits from Laura Clark (my bestie from the westie...I mean, Abilene), Kate and Will Powell (my bestie from childhood and her husband), and, most recently, the Childress family! Hooray! All visitors are welcome, NYC is only an hour by train, and we have no friends here so we would love to have you! :)
We have also visited a number of places, which is much more feasible to do now that we can drive for a day and be out of the state in which we started. We went to Syracuse for my birthday, went to Michigan for Jaron and Erin's wedding, went to Vermont for Labor Day weekend, went to a concert in Philly (Ray LaMontagne and David Gray. Awesome.), and we've been to Ikea twice. TWICE! We actually haven't been to NYC yet, but are sure that we will take advantage of its proximity soon enough.
I had a job interview the Monday after we arrived, and was very blessed to get the position. I started work at The Wilberforce School (a PreK-8, classical, Christian school) in mid-August (a month after we moved) and am enjoying the job. I am the Office Administrator, which entails a lot of organization, filing, paperwork, reception, supply ordering (etc) as well as (randomly) administering first aid, and whatever else the Dean/Head of School need. It does not have much to do with either of my degrees, but as you all likely know, I am vocationally confused anyway, so I am just thankful to have a full-time job with health insurance!
PTS (Princeton Theological Seminary) just started classes yesterday (which seems very late to us) but Jamey actually has not had any classes of his own yet, so he is trying to enjoy his remaining moments of freedom and sanity.
And I guess that is that. I can't wait for autumn in a place with trees (and those mesquite things you Abilenian's call trees do not count).
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