After a long game of hurry-up-and-wait, things are finally happening. My visa application process has started and I'm meeting with the move organizer this afternoon to go over the logistics of the move. The visa application starts with a serious amount of informational reaming, and I kinda doubt that is over yet... lets hope the moving agency is gentler!
It all still seems very surreal and dissociated and I'm mostly sharing my preoccupational energies between researching Seattle's residential areas and getting rid of as much stuff as possible on eBay...