From the Salmon

A few weeks ago I put up a teaser about our upcoming move. Some of you good naturedly took a shot at it. And it was the kind of thing that would have been fun if I hadn’t then more or less forgotten about it. So I apologize for being woefully anticlimactic.

Here’s the scoop: sometime in August or possibly as late as September, we will be moving to the south side of Chicago. More specifically, we’ll be moving to Hyde Park so that the lovely Dr. Zalm (my wife) can begin her postdoctoral work at the U of C.

This will be my second stint in Chicagoland, although this time it will be in the city rather than in the suburbs. And oddly enough, it will be the second time I will have lived in Hyde Park. Although the first time was a little further east.

It’s going to be hard to leave, because there’s an awful lot that we love about Berkeley and the friends that we have here. Once we accepted the position, we went through a few weeks of what could only be described as, well, mourning.

Eventually, I’m sure that we’ll be excited about the move. I grew up near Chicago, so I know that it’s an incredible city in many ways.

But the move is really too far away at this point for us to really engage in the excitement of finding a place to live and searching for new clients or employment for me.

So there you have it. Sorry to have left you hanging.

More to come, I’m sure.