Changes

Wow. So much has changed in so little time.

I’m leaving my store, department, and home for three months to go help at another store during their re-model. This assignment was offered/suggested by someone I don’t particularly trust, but as I have been given no sealed envelopes and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are not coming with, I feel OK about it. I report in at the new store on Monday, and my assignment doesn’t end until Friday, October 20, 2006.

I don’t know how often (or even if) I’ll get to come home before the assignment ends. It’s going to be hard, but I think it will be exciting and it gets me out of my department for three months. I’m not worried about the physical aspects of the work (probably lots of heavy lifting) but I’ll miss my friends a lot. We’re cozy right now, things are really good, and I don’t want to be gone so long but it’s a great opportunity and it exposes me to the people that need to see me.

I won’t be very far away geographically, only eighty or so miles, but it’s all rural highway and mountains except the last twenty or so. That means commuting is out of the question, especially in my SUV with gas at $2.99/gal. I may be able to come home on weekends but I don’t know what the policy is on that yet. I don’t even know who I’m supposed to get in touch with when I get there to find out where the hotel is.

Lots of confusion and not a lot of information. I’ll be leaving Monday morning bright and early. Ember and Sammie and I are going to the Waffle House tonight for a small send-off. I’m really going to miss them while I’m gone, but I know I’m not leaving forever, and they’ll be here when I get back.

I’ll be giving Ember a note/letter with all the details, but I wanted to put it here for everyone to see that she has full use and run of the apartment and its contents while I’m gone. Just don’t burn the place down, OK?

I’ve got a lot to do, and not a lot of time to do it in.