On starting a new life

Its a pretty crazy thing, starting a new life.
First of all: a place to stay! For that I have to give a huge shout out to Ali Wood and Scott from CHRPA for letting me stay at Ali's house for a bit until I find something more permanent. With out this to hold me over, I'd be stuck on some strangers couch or something.
Then its nice to have a job. Got mine on friday! It took a couple of days being anxious and simply waiting and biking around (read: twiddling my thumbs) but it happened! The interview was Friday morning and by the afternoon, on my way to get a library card, I got the call that said I got a job. And today was my first day! (but more on that later, first there's more about starting a new life!)
Next, its back to the living situation. I'm now in the process of finding a good place to live! I think I've got a pretty good chance with this one group of out there hippies. They seem like an interesting group, especially the older couple who owns the place, and it seemed like they liked me. Not to mention its right smack dab between and next to downtown and my work. And on top of that rent is quite reasonable at $300 including utilities. But I'm getting carried away.
Now there's the bike issue. Since the mountain bike was left here as a relic of my traveling days of ohsolong ago, I do have some transportation and have been using it exclusively and thoroughly. But it is not meant for what I am making it do. The poor thing is just longing for some trail; the fork is simply begging to be left un-locked out for more than 30 seconds when I bump down some stairs! And so a road bike is in order. Evidently there might be one available to me for cheap through my work  :-) but we'll see, it might be being saved for one of the disadvantaged youth we will be working with...
Then, finally, as all the practicalities are being finalized or at least have some potential solutions its time to think about those other needs higher up on the pyramid. Thank God for church. Shalom Mennonite was great. Super welcoming and helpful. Even offering to help keep their eyes open for potential housing opportunities. Then on Monday I met more people at an MLK event that I went to for work. I hung with with Kendra and Danny who work for Habitat for humanity and some other random fun folks.
And so, although the whole meeting new people thing is going pretty well so far I still have a long way to go in the 'making of friends' section of starting a new life. And although it is of course crucial to meet new people to make those friends it can also be a bit overwhelming. Frankly, I think I might be getting tired of all this newness.