I'm going to have to remember that about book weight, if I ever have to hire professional movers. So far we've been able to depend on the kindness of friends and relatives.
Funny ... they always mention the weight of the books too. But it's only cost us an extra beer or two. 8-)
Congratulations on putting your plans in action, and good luck on settling in! I think you'll feel better once the place starts feeling familiar instead of new all the time.
I'm glad to hear that you made it safely! Sorry that I was unable to help this week, but my grades were due at midnight on Tuesday, and I rewarded myself by going offline for a few days afterward.
BTW, the secret method we savvy academics use for transporting books is to mail them to ourselves, book rate. That does save quite a bit of money over having movers deal with them, but it also means having to deal with schlepping them to the P.O., etc. After I arrived in SF in the mid-1990s, my books arrived a week later: fifty boxes, enough to fill a whole mail truck! And then, I faced the task of carrying all of those boxes up my building's three long flights of stairs! Ouch!
Oh my god, that's a brilliant suggestion. Next time I move long-distance, I'm totally doing that.
Thanks; I'm glad to be here now. No worries about anything; mostly it's just a lot of angsty flailing over here--the kind that I'll soon get over. :) Glad to hear that you're taking care of yourself; I'll try to learn from your wise example.
There's this thing with moving, this fear thing. To get over it I have to think of myself as this small tiny thing, walking the face of the planet. Which seems incredibly terrifying... but somehow isn't in practice. Maybe it's because it reminds me that my person and my issues and my stuff really aren't that big in the scheme of the universe, so I start to see myself as a cog in a giant city's machine (in this case, meaning London).
Your stuff arriving will help. Time will help. But even without those, you can totally do this. As someone very wise told me when I was dealing with the past and my impending move: Be stronger than your fear. I know that YOU are!
Everybody pretty much covered it above, but I just wanted to say that I know you will rock Portland. It is where you want and need to be and this is just the start of amazing chapter for you.
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Funny ... they always mention the weight of the books too. But it's only cost us an extra beer or two. 8-)
Congratulations on putting your plans in action, and good luck on settling in! I think you'll feel better once the place starts feeling familiar instead of new all the time.
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lunapalma makes the great suggestion of mailing them book rate. Next time I do a long-distance move, I'm totally doing that.
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BTW, the secret method we savvy academics use for transporting books is to mail them to ourselves, book rate. That does save quite a bit of money over having movers deal with them, but it also means having to deal with schlepping them to the P.O., etc. After I arrived in SF in the mid-1990s, my books arrived a week later: fifty boxes, enough to fill a whole mail truck! And then, I faced the task of carrying all of those boxes up my building's three long flights of stairs! Ouch!
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Thanks; I'm glad to be here now. No worries about anything; mostly it's just a lot of angsty flailing over here--the kind that I'll soon get over. :) Glad to hear that you're taking care of yourself; I'll try to learn from your wise example.
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Your stuff arriving will help. Time will help. But even without those, you can totally do this. As someone very wise told me when I was dealing with the past and my impending move: Be stronger than your fear. I know that YOU are!
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Just promise me you won't get into pickling;)
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