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I'm all moved out!
Sort of. The stuff from the house is no place is no longer there, it's all at my parents, still in the truck and trailer or if it was Cathy's it has been taken to its proper destination for the most part. All that is left to do is some more clean up work. I feel like this is the first time I've really sat down for a moment all day.
This entire weekend has been consumed by moving. It is amazing just how much stuff manages to pile up. A lot of the things are things that we moved there with us but we had also accumulated a lot of things over the almost 2 1/2 years there. It is being painted right now so it can be sold and some other person can then move in there and make it their home. As it is now I feel a bit adrift. It was weird feeling like I didn't actually have a place to go. I can't go to my parents just yet. They had Jazz tickets tonight (and for every home game now, as it turns out. Season tickets hurrah!) and when the game is done we'll all caravan down there with the stuff. But there isn't anything at the apartment any more and I'm not going to just sit for a couple hours in an empty apartment smelling the paint fumes as my uncle paints the walls. So right now I'm writing this from Cathy's. I went to her work and got the key to her place to go chill for a couple hours. At first I thought I might just have to take a nap as wireless internet is a fickle mistress and sometimes denies you its pleasures. But then th internet was conceded to me and I was able to get back on for the first time in a few days. Still, I felt weird to need to get out of my place but not actually having anywhere to go to. Tomorrow I will clean the place up a bit, like the fridge and bathroom and various other parts that just need it. And then that will be that for the old place.
Back to the not being able to sit down part, I did go to class today, but we had our lab final exam in Ornithology, so even though I was sitting down I was trying to cram songbird family names and species common names and various other stuff into my head during the class. After that was the lab portion. There were stations set up at each desk space in the lab. The skins we had been studying were out and we had 90 seconds at each one. Some places we had to name parts of a disected bird or some feature of another. The last bunch were like the old One of These Things is Not Like the Other of Sesame Street. 3 skins were set out and 2 of them were related on the genus, family or order level and the other wasn't, then you had to put the most specific peice of information down that we had to learn about the 3rd skin. For most of them that was just the family name. So for example there's a White Faced Ibis, a Great Blue Heron and an American White Pelican skin on the table. The Ibis is from family Threskiornithidae, the Heron from Ardeidae and the Pelican from the aptly named Pelecanidae (yes that's spelled right). All different families, but the Ibis and and Heron are from the Ciconiiformes order, a group that includes the storks as well, while the pelican is in an order called, again aptly named, Pelecaniformes, which also included cormorants and boobies (yes, boobies; also, birds are the greatest class of vertebrates as they include large varieties of boobies and tits, plus the Thrushes such as robins are in the family Turdidae, so next time you see a robin you can say "hey, there's a Turdid" and see who looks at you funny). So the pelican is the odd one out there. For the most part I think I aced it, I know of only about three that I missed from talking to people afterwards, but I did really well on this.
For the next two weeks I'll have to do some commuting to school. I'll probably just drive up to the Trax stop and get to school that way. It'll let me study on the ride and save on the gas money, plus driving that long was is just a bitch anyway. I'm applying for some jobs up that way so if I get them and they start pretty soon I'll have to figure out the new housing situation pretty quick, but there are still a lot of possibilites as to who, what and where that is going to work out like. I just want to know right now. All that stuff that I've packed I can't quite unpacked because I'll be back out of there, I hope, soon enough that it's not worth the time. I think the thing I hate most about all the moving is the little things I had to discard. They aren't really important but have some silly little meaning or something to me and I would otherwise keep them. The only reason they are being tossed out is they just aren't worth the box space or whatever to hold on to.
Sort of. The stuff from the house is no place is no longer there, it's all at my parents, still in the truck and trailer or if it was Cathy's it has been taken to its proper destination for the most part. All that is left to do is some more clean up work. I feel like this is the first time I've really sat down for a moment all day.
This entire weekend has been consumed by moving. It is amazing just how much stuff manages to pile up. A lot of the things are things that we moved there with us but we had also accumulated a lot of things over the almost 2 1/2 years there. It is being painted right now so it can be sold and some other person can then move in there and make it their home. As it is now I feel a bit adrift. It was weird feeling like I didn't actually have a place to go. I can't go to my parents just yet. They had Jazz tickets tonight (and for every home game now, as it turns out. Season tickets hurrah!) and when the game is done we'll all caravan down there with the stuff. But there isn't anything at the apartment any more and I'm not going to just sit for a couple hours in an empty apartment smelling the paint fumes as my uncle paints the walls. So right now I'm writing this from Cathy's. I went to her work and got the key to her place to go chill for a couple hours. At first I thought I might just have to take a nap as wireless internet is a fickle mistress and sometimes denies you its pleasures. But then th internet was conceded to me and I was able to get back on for the first time in a few days. Still, I felt weird to need to get out of my place but not actually having anywhere to go to. Tomorrow I will clean the place up a bit, like the fridge and bathroom and various other parts that just need it. And then that will be that for the old place.
Back to the not being able to sit down part, I did go to class today, but we had our lab final exam in Ornithology, so even though I was sitting down I was trying to cram songbird family names and species common names and various other stuff into my head during the class. After that was the lab portion. There were stations set up at each desk space in the lab. The skins we had been studying were out and we had 90 seconds at each one. Some places we had to name parts of a disected bird or some feature of another. The last bunch were like the old One of These Things is Not Like the Other of Sesame Street. 3 skins were set out and 2 of them were related on the genus, family or order level and the other wasn't, then you had to put the most specific peice of information down that we had to learn about the 3rd skin. For most of them that was just the family name. So for example there's a White Faced Ibis, a Great Blue Heron and an American White Pelican skin on the table. The Ibis is from family Threskiornithidae, the Heron from Ardeidae and the Pelican from the aptly named Pelecanidae (yes that's spelled right). All different families, but the Ibis and and Heron are from the Ciconiiformes order, a group that includes the storks as well, while the pelican is in an order called, again aptly named, Pelecaniformes, which also included cormorants and boobies (yes, boobies; also, birds are the greatest class of vertebrates as they include large varieties of boobies and tits, plus the Thrushes such as robins are in the family Turdidae, so next time you see a robin you can say "hey, there's a Turdid" and see who looks at you funny). So the pelican is the odd one out there. For the most part I think I aced it, I know of only about three that I missed from talking to people afterwards, but I did really well on this.
For the next two weeks I'll have to do some commuting to school. I'll probably just drive up to the Trax stop and get to school that way. It'll let me study on the ride and save on the gas money, plus driving that long was is just a bitch anyway. I'm applying for some jobs up that way so if I get them and they start pretty soon I'll have to figure out the new housing situation pretty quick, but there are still a lot of possibilites as to who, what and where that is going to work out like. I just want to know right now. All that stuff that I've packed I can't quite unpacked because I'll be back out of there, I hope, soon enough that it's not worth the time. I think the thing I hate most about all the moving is the little things I had to discard. They aren't really important but have some silly little meaning or something to me and I would otherwise keep them. The only reason they are being tossed out is they just aren't worth the box space or whatever to hold on to.