Dare I Say?

I hesitate to tell you that the news may begin to pour swiftly in now, because so often in the past this instinct has proven vastly untrue. Still...

Dave had same-time conversations with the Boss in Shanghai and the HR rep. in Beijing this evening. It is confirmed that we can fly in mid-September. It is further confirmed that we will arrange our own shipping.

The boss in Chicago promised to do his best to get us business class seats for the intial flight. We've confirmed the dates with him, and are waiting to hear back on a plan.

Our agent in Shanghai sent us contacts at moving companies. I emailed each of these contacts this evening, and am waiting to hear back from them as well.

We've begun to lay out our tentative schedule, which will become more firm when the airline tickets have been purchased. I naively expect that to happen within the next few days, and will publish our schedule for the next few months at that time.

In re-reading this post, I am struck by how full of process and minute details it is. My apologies, dear readers, for writing such dull facts. Please trust that this minutiae is heaven-sent to us. After months of sitting on our hands, checking email every few minutes, we finally have something that we can do. The ball was firmly in our court this evening, if only for a few precious moments.