4:21 pm well shucks, where do i start? I'M IN TUCSON!!! for real!!! no visiting, no vacationing, no checking it out...i'm here and i'm staying...it's been a whirlwind two weeks...i quit my job may 4th, had a week to pack and get everything lined around, and then i hit the road with one of my best friend from high school...it would have been a beautiful drive, but we didn't stop...since we had to wait to leave until friday night, we pretty much needed to make it as fast as possible...we got here around 3 am last sunday...i started my new job monday...it was a crazy drive and i probably slept a maximum of one hour...the things my eyes were seeing on that road were insane...we drove through southern new mexico and arizona in the middle of the night, and, well, i wouldn't recommend it...there are no lights anywhere (which makes the sky amazing, but the visibility terrible), there was really no one on the road, and i think we drove right through the "area"...we were freaking ourselves out a bit, but at least that was keeping me awake at the wheel...they have a sort of strange palm tree here (i think they're called yuccas) that look like ostriches...or dr seuss characters...or aliens...for all i know i could have been abducted at some point or another...but, anyway, the job rocks...i found out that i get to go to sedona and the grand canyon for a week in june to teach kids about the environment through photography...i could get used to this...my place is anything but settled, but i'm in no rush...i think i need some chilling time this weekend...i feel like nothing has really sunk in yet because there has been so much going on...i'm actually starting to miss all of the quality thinking time i had in iowa city...though i don't miss iowa city at all...i hardly even think of the place...it's weird...it's like opening this door automatically shut that one...and that's an odd feeling, but not a bad one...nothing there was too endeared to me, so it's really not hard not to miss it...things here will settle down, i'll (hopefully) meet some quality people, and i may never want to go back to where i came from...that's the plan for now...