Busy Busy (a long, boring informative post)

We had an amazing vacation in the middle of May. It was a much needed bit of rest and relaxation before all the craziness that came after it and will continue for several months. (pictures coming soon) When we came home from vacation I went back to work and Sameer began looking for temporary work. We got our humble apartment ready for the arrival of Sameer's parents soon after that. They arrived on Saturday to be here for Commencement. Commencement at Yale is a long noble event. He actually got to don his cap and gown for three separate ceremonies between Sunday and Monday. (pictures of that coming soon too)

The day after Commencement the four of us took the train to Manhattan where we stayed in a fun little hotel on Broadway. On Thursday morning we saw Sameer's parents off at Penn Station where they boarded a train headed for Niagara Falls. We spent the day in Manhattan mostly looking for peaceful places to read. (By our 3rd day in the city we were in desperate need of quietness). We discovered the New York Humanites & Social Sciences Library. It had a huge public reading room and we spent 4 hours there. Then we went to dinner and finished off our last (6th in fact) New York trip of the year by seeing Les Miserables on Broadway.

We arrived home around 2:45am that night (morning) and then 4 hours later I got up to go to work. After work I went to bed early. Then on Saturday we began working on what we had long been putting off....

We're moving. In a few weeks. I don't remember if we've mentioned it specifically, but Sameer is beginning a doctor of theology program at Duke this fall (Th.D.). We're leaving our beloved New Haven and new friends and church to move to the south. We don't know where we're living or when we're going to get there but we do know we're moving out of this apartment sometime between June 29th and June 30th. We hope to squeeze in a trip to Idaho and California at some point but we also want to get to Duke soon so I can start looking for work. In between applying for jobs and writing cover letters we're also looking into buying a home in Durham. We're thinking of renting an apartment for a few months to get to know the area. Things aren't coming together as quickly as I'd like and I find it so difficult to just stop trying to plan things constantly. If you read our very first post of this blog you'll see how wonderfully God provided for us when we moved here. I'm sure He'll take care of us with this move too. I just need to figure out a way to let a few minutes go by without thinking about it.

I look forward to the time when we can get through a whole year without packing up our apartment and moving. We've never stayed in the same place for more than 9 months since we've been married. It must be nice (but maybe boring?) to be settled.