another get-ready-to-move day
The closest thing to "uni work" I accomplished today was 45 minutes this evening spent checking the various positions to which I might wish to apply to find those who's initial application deadline has already past. Those I sent a quick e-mail stating that I'd seen their ad and are they still seeking applicants? I included a link to my CV and let them know that if they were still seeking applicants I'd be happy to submit a formal packet. I've also made note of the one with a 15 December deadline, and the fact that the others are all in early January. The quest for something interesting to do once I finish this degree continues!
The rest of the day was spent in various tasks towards the goal of moving this weekend. In the morning clovis_t and I went in to uni and picked up more empty boxes from the "box store room" in the geology department. A useful place, largely full of boxes computer paper arrives in, and a few other sorts. Even found one large enough to pack my big cookie sheets! From there we when out to Allens Rivulet to finish preparing the room to move into. Of course, in order to get it empty, I first had to do some re-arranging of the boxes of things in the rumpus room. Thanks to some organizing and stacking of boxes the stuff that was already there, plus the stuff from what is about to become our room (again) now takes up less floor space than did just the one pile yesterday. Have I mentioned recently that I enjoy organizing and packing things in a space efficient manner? We didn't have much time available out there, because we needed to be back at this house by 13:30 to meet a lady interested in purchasing our refrigerator, washer and dryer. She decided she wants it, so will meet us here late in the day Sunday to pick them up. Yay! One more set of large items dealt with!
After that it was packing, organizing, dealing with FreeCycle e-mails connecting with other people who will come take away the stuff we no longer need, and meeting our houseguest. He is a friend of a friend in Alaska who has come to Tasmania to spend five weeks doing a bicycle tour of the state. He's got a rental car for the first few days and is using our house as a home base while he gets his bearings and finds a bicycle he can use for his adventure, be it purchased or borrowed (so if anyone local has a working mountain bike they'd let him use, let me know). He's already offered to help us with moving, which is sweet, but I hope that he spends more time checking out this beautiful island than he does being useful with the great moving project.
In other news, darttn is one of the world's best moms. The Hammer Dulcimer e-mail list recently recommended a book, but when I checked the ordering page, they stated that they don't process payments over the internet, that it is necessary to actually call them over the phone to give them credit card details. Not wishing to place an international call, I asked mom to call them for me, and told her to withdraw the cash from my Alaskan Bank account (of which she is a joint account member, for just this sort of purpose). Today she tells me that the book is in the mail, and Merry Christmas, *and* she says that she's put additional cash into my account so that we can go shopping for new luggage, since she figures that it will come in handy when we do travelling/moving next year. She is so wonderful! Thoughtful too!
The rest of the day was spent in various tasks towards the goal of moving this weekend. In the morning clovis_t and I went in to uni and picked up more empty boxes from the "box store room" in the geology department. A useful place, largely full of boxes computer paper arrives in, and a few other sorts. Even found one large enough to pack my big cookie sheets! From there we when out to Allens Rivulet to finish preparing the room to move into. Of course, in order to get it empty, I first had to do some re-arranging of the boxes of things in the rumpus room. Thanks to some organizing and stacking of boxes the stuff that was already there, plus the stuff from what is about to become our room (again) now takes up less floor space than did just the one pile yesterday. Have I mentioned recently that I enjoy organizing and packing things in a space efficient manner? We didn't have much time available out there, because we needed to be back at this house by 13:30 to meet a lady interested in purchasing our refrigerator, washer and dryer. She decided she wants it, so will meet us here late in the day Sunday to pick them up. Yay! One more set of large items dealt with!
After that it was packing, organizing, dealing with FreeCycle e-mails connecting with other people who will come take away the stuff we no longer need, and meeting our houseguest. He is a friend of a friend in Alaska who has come to Tasmania to spend five weeks doing a bicycle tour of the state. He's got a rental car for the first few days and is using our house as a home base while he gets his bearings and finds a bicycle he can use for his adventure, be it purchased or borrowed (so if anyone local has a working mountain bike they'd let him use, let me know). He's already offered to help us with moving, which is sweet, but I hope that he spends more time checking out this beautiful island than he does being useful with the great moving project.
In other news, darttn is one of the world's best moms. The Hammer Dulcimer e-mail list recently recommended a book, but when I checked the ordering page, they stated that they don't process payments over the internet, that it is necessary to actually call them over the phone to give them credit card details. Not wishing to place an international call, I asked mom to call them for me, and told her to withdraw the cash from my Alaskan Bank account (of which she is a joint account member, for just this sort of purpose). Today she tells me that the book is in the mail, and Merry Christmas, *and* she says that she's put additional cash into my account so that we can go shopping for new luggage, since she figures that it will come in handy when we do travelling/moving next year. She is so wonderful! Thoughtful too!