I want to redesign my blog...add that to the 800 other thinks I'd like to do. I've been on a sort-of hiatus during the 2-month-long relocation process. I am now finally settled in Chicago. It feels like home. The last two things left on my to do list is to get my Illinois drivers license and change my phone number to the 312 area code. Everything else has fallen into place. Tracy has found employment in the city and starts June 30. She will arrive this coming Friday with the car. Now I can finally get back to freelancing. I can't exactly lug my camera gear on the EL, nor would I ever want to. I feel like I've been a little out of the loop. I've been without home Internet access because the two major carriers here (one cable and one phone company) hasn't been able to get me service since I ordered it one week prior to my June 1st move-in date. I read once that incompetence is the default way in which the world operates. Past experience (in many ways) reflect the truth in that statement.

Chicago is a fabulous city and I look forward to integrating myself into the arts community here. I'd like to branch out and dabble into other interests that I've sidelined lately. Time to dust off my art supplies - I've got ideas for paintings, some short stories in my head and some assemblage sculptures I'd like to bring from sketched designs to tangible, 3-D form. Life is very exciting right now.