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I've made my big move and gotten mostly settled into my new apartment, bought and assembled my own furniture for the first time, opened a new bank account with no maternal assistance, and done about a fourth of the ton of paperwork I have to do to get everything in order for the semester. I have more paperwork to complete and a second graduate student orientation to attend tomorrow. Right now, I'm ridiculously tired. I have a chair that's not hell on back now, but getting it into and then back out of my car, cleaning it, and then moving it inside the building took some work. I'll probably be rested enough to get back to fandom shenanigans this weekend. At least, I hope I will.
They're almost in the same state, right?
Aug. 11th, 2012 08:29 pmIt was blessedly cool this morning, and it rained this afternoon! That's exciting for me, after so many very hot, dry days. Not as exciting as the fact that I have LESS THAN A WEEK BEFORE I MOVE, though. I think I've managed to sell or give away pretty much everything I can convince somebody to take.
Speaking of moving, I've been checking maps to plan my route, and I made the minor error of discussing that with my mother. She seems to believe that everything in the Great Lakes region is in or at least very close to Chicago and that I can't get to Ohio without driving through Chicago. I don't think she really has a feel for the distances involved. I understand her concerns about me driving alone in very big cities, but this time she really doesn't need to worry about that since I will not, in fact, have to drive in any of them. I'm not going through Chicago or even its suburbs. I might possibly pass through the very edges of the suburbs of Cleveland at most. I have no reason to drive through those cities. I have not yet convinced my mother of this.
Speaking of moving, I've been checking maps to plan my route, and I made the minor error of discussing that with my mother. She seems to believe that everything in the Great Lakes region is in or at least very close to Chicago and that I can't get to Ohio without driving through Chicago. I don't think she really has a feel for the distances involved. I understand her concerns about me driving alone in very big cities, but this time she really doesn't need to worry about that since I will not, in fact, have to drive in any of them. I'm not going through Chicago or even its suburbs. I might possibly pass through the very edges of the suburbs of Cleveland at most. I have no reason to drive through those cities. I have not yet convinced my mother of this.
Bookshed moments
Jul. 27th, 2012 06:26 pmI did a lot of sorting and packing this afternoon, and I realized just how many books I'm going to have to leave behind when I move. They're simply not going to fit, and I've had to be more ruthless in cutting down the collection than I had expected. Anyway, I found a place that will buy my books, assuming that I can manage to transport them there. I'm going to unload the kid-friendly books on my students first, then see how many of the grown-up books I can haul. There's still so much to do.
