I made it! Another cross country move later, I have officially relocated to Tallahassee, Florida. I don't have much else to report yet. I haven't been here a week and I'm finding my way through my first week of work at a new (HUGE) university. On the plus side, I've only gotten lost once so far and that is because I managed to type the wrong address into my GPS after triple checking that it was right (go me!). I have managed to find a really tasty fish sandwich though at Barnacle Bill's (the name caught the eye, the delicious food meant I'd actually go back).
My first impressions is that it rains a lot here. Even as I type this it is pouring down rain faster than I thought possible accompanied with thunder that is shaking the building. And yet I can see blue sky from where I sit...The old saying of if you don't like the weather just wait 15 minutes is actually true here! The rest of the country, the portion I just drove through over four days, is in drought and I'm under flash flood warnings here. A bit of a different world. Also, the humidity, heavens have I missed you! Walking out of the library is like hitting a brick wall of heavy air and I love it. I don't think my hair does but I rejoice. I'm certainly not cold around here. Unless I happen to be in a building because apparently if the A/C is on around here, it must be set permanently on the Arctic setting. So I wear a sweater all day and take it off to go outside. Talk about a reversal of the norm!
I am still getting settled in my apartment and it will take longer than planned. The moving company managed to get all of my belongings here and if it was in a box, it was mostly in one piece. If it was furniture however, it was apparently free game. I lost both my bookshelves and my desk so it will take me awhile to replace those as well as hunt down a new sofa for the apartment. My living room currently looks very sad. I also have all my Christmas boxes stuffed into a corner of my dining room as I have to get plastic bins for them before I can move them out into my storage closet off the patio. BUT I have my own washer and dryer and a walk in closet big enough to be a guest room if I wanted. It certainly blows Harry Potter's Cupboard Under the Stairs out of the water. There is also a pool though I haven't been in the apartment (and without rain) long enough to do more than run up and take a picture of it. Even when I did that the storm clouds were rolling in.
I am hoping this weekend to get out and explore. I know I want to check out the movie theater (I found one closer to my apartment than I thought!) and maybe head up to see the other mall in town where Barnes & Noble's lives. I also need to try to dig up the second hand bookstore in this town as well as the library branch down on my side of town. As I won't have cable/internet installed until the 18th, I have to find some way to entertain myself!
