“The wind of change is blowing through this continent.”

It’s been a while since I last updated. Life has been turning itself inside out, and change has come at me from all directions:

• I turned 30 recently. This doesn’t yet feel any different from 29, or even 25, or even 21, for the most part. But then again, I live in my skin every day, and so the changes are so small to me as to be imperceptible. Still, because of this, it doesn’t strike me as a big change.
• In a few weeks I will no longer be a member of None Of The Above, the A Cappella ensemble I’ve been with for three years. This was a bit sudden to me, and emotionally, it feels like a breakup. It wasn’t my choice, but I’m coming to accept the decision, and it has freed me up to take some ballroom dance lessons, so it’s not all bad.
• The biggest change is that as of October 1st, I’ll be working at Regis College. After 7+ years without much growth, I’m stepping out of the comfort zone and into a new role. I’ll be their new Instructional Technologist, which is sufficiently different from m past experience that I’m sure it’ll be a struggle at first. It’s also a small cut in pay, which is going to make things exceedingly squinchy for me for a time, but he opportunity for growth and future advancement outweighs the downsides. this is the change that has me the most nervous, although it doesn’t hurt as much as I thought it might. Yet.