nest building

This week has been a roller coaster of events, what with orientation of the best sort in preparation for teaching on Monday (as I entered in to sending emails on blackboard my instructor advised me
"you are not writing a novel Jacqui its an email ! " ) , meeting my new colleagues who have been exceptionally kind with their time and advice on how to make sure I do not get too nervous as I stand in front of my first class on Monday afternoon, plus ! building a nest......
We had the beds delivered and the man noticing the masking tape on the floor to see if the sofa and chairs we had spied would fit, chuckled as he left commenting " I sure hope you find the person who shot your furniture!"
Well we didn't, but we have a home which has after a week grown day by day with oddities and bizarre placing of internet and printers but we feel we are up and running. We have been out celebrating birthdays of a colleague's partner and actually managing to stay up and listen to him sing in a bar at past midnight (for those of you that know Mike he is renowned for sleeping at the table after ten o'clock ! ). He seems to have fallen in to being in Savannah with remarkable ease.

Our first visitor arrived from Washington the best naughty little sister Lyndsay Bird who happened to be this side of the water
and feels its nothing to hop on a plane with chocolates, champagne and a house warming gift , she really does put us all to shame. How I wish we were all so good and generous with our time. She is utterly amazing. It was so wonderful to share a couple of days with her and Mike tried out his new found skill of the tourist guide by taking her on a trolley bus tour around the historic district . She felt the same sort of fuzzy good feeling we had when we came here in November and loved the grid layout of the squares and the ability to walk easily around with out feeling its a mad bad city.
For those who are not acquainted with the city Savannah is :
"Located in the heart of Coastal Georgia's Low country, a city of rare natural beauty—of azaleas in bloom and stately oaks draped with Spanish moss. These landscapes have been lovingly enhanced by two centuries of manmade splendor, from her distinctive park-like squares and cobblestone streets to the magnificent architecture of her storied antebellum homes and churches." It is unbelievably beautiful.