For those three of you who didn’t know, I’m not a Minnesotan any more. Or a Wisconsinite, I guess. No, my home is now in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It’s strange to say, but I almost feel like I’m already living that small dream. I’ve heard people say that “if you talk about something it long enough, it’s real”.

I don’t know how long it will be before I start to feel like this is where I’ve always been. It will probably be after I stop hearing about my accent, and maybe after I change my license plates. I hope it will come like the pentecostal flame, only giving me the strength to kill giant spiders instead of speaking in tongues.

There were a few steps to this journey, and I’ll probably document them for you in the next day or two. Without internet access or a working knowledge of Tulsa’s geography, I’ll probably be sitting inside a lot without much to do. It’s good, and I’m not trying to ‘fix that’.

But in summary: it’s now a week before my graduate courses start up in computer science, and three days before I find out just how small I am relative to the entering class of graduate students. These are major events, and major chapters that I’m now going to be exploring. I’m glad you’re reading this, and I hope you can find time to leave a comment or two on this blog series. I’d like to hear what other people are going through.