inaugural address

succumbing to the voices in my head, i have decided to try this blogging thing on for a spell. i hope this isn't like when a person gets a new pony and they can't wait to trot it out to show the neighbors only to leave it in the pasture after a month or two. we'll see. i guarantee nothing.

this blog will more or less chronicle how a person who knew someone everywhere she went in the course of a day becomes almost entirely anonymous. and a bit of a curiosity to those around her. as many of you know (assuming i will have some meager audience...), i am a person who isn't great at being anonymous. everything is different. every. thing. i guess i want to talk about the strangeness of the journey.

to wit; i am now working with a group of people who were born and raised in the same small town in arkansas. they, many of them, are related to one another (in the non-icky sense) and know each others' entire histories. i cannot imagine it. there are new plants, new design trends, new directions to contend with. well, new to me, anyway.

let's start with the plants. wow - things are blooming everywhere i look and the landscape can change entirely from one day to the next. i drive into the mountains every morning and see the changes in an instant. one of my co-workers brings flowers almost every day and the variety is astounding to me. she: "i grew this 2-foot yellow iris and these peonies are from 40-year-old plants in my grandmother's yard" me: "GREW??? where's the cellophane?" i think they laugh at me a lot.

design trends. camo as nursery decor, baby wear, even a recliner (i shudder to think...). to be specific, real tree. as we all awaited the birth of this baby (who is really as cute as hell), i suggested they would need heat-sensing goggles in order to locate him. had they registered for those?

finally, directions. i am from south florida. if you drive east, you are in the atlantic ocean - west, the gulf of mexico. it takes 7 hours to even leave the state unless you are on a boat, in which case it takes 35 seconds. i am now in the center of a large web of roadways that don't necessarily meet up. ever. the amount of swearing in public has decreased but in my car, why that's another f*&%#@%g story.

so there. be gentle, gentle readers.

coming soon - socializing in a vacuum.