Momentum is picking up in the way of New Mexico. Transcripts have been ordered. Liscencing applications are poised to be sent upon their arrival. Finances for the move are being planned. Habibi has been told. It didn't even register as a blip on his radar that I would be going. That hurt, but was not entirely unexpected... bleh.

I'm cashing out my Texas teacher's retirement, well rolling a lot of it over into my 403b, but cashing a healthy chunck of it out. I want to pay for car insurance for a year in advance, do about a $1000 bucks worth of repairs and preventitive maintenance on the car. Get a functioning computer that can handle graphics applications in the litteral blink of an eye, and have money for first, last, second months and pet deposit on my rented house or apartment of choice, preferably in the university or Knob hill area of Albuquerque, with easy convenience to Corazon, and oh yeah, work. Actually I have a secret hope that Corazon and I can find our own 28 barbary lane. Oh yes, and I want to pay my car note 3 months in advance if not a year,even. Ok, ok, AND i'm considering budgeting a 1,000 dollars worth of painting supplies into the mix, and possibly updating my digital camera equipment, as photo transfering looks to be poised on the precipace of entering into my creative repotoire of painting techniques and oh yes! I'm working with golden paints custom paint lab to provide me with some custom painting mediums that I need for the next step in the evolution of my creative process. Mainly mediums in matt and gloss in pourable and super chunky viscosities that will dry in sheets that do not craze (crack) when poured in thick layers onto supports. I also need an additive that allows me to modify there rheaology (consistency ranging from stringy and sticky, to buttery and chuncky) , Hopefully the people at technical support can recomend existing products that will allow me to create these products on my own. Otherwise, thats what the custom lab is for! (my painting instructor watches me pull out my bag or tricks and bottles of mediums at class, about 10 or so. He says I sometimes look more like a chemist then a painter. I like that summation.)

I just finished the best read I've experienced in a VERY long time. "The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Neffenegger (sp) Very, very, powerful read.