moving.
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Wow. I wish I could say I’d forgotten
what a pain it is to move, but it’s been barely a year and a half since
I moved to Cambridge, so the suffering is fresh in my mind.
So the fiancée and I rented a second-floor apartment in Norwood, which is about halfway between her work and mine. (And yes, we're on the September cycle.) Just as I expected, the move was a nightmare, even though we did it in stages. First we had to move everything she owns out of her house in Rhode Island, which the two of us did by ourselves. Even loading the truck was traumatic, since there was still packing to do, things were getting scrambled (and, in a couple of instances, broken), and the truck got a lot fuller than we anticipated. It also took longer than we planned (as it always does), and so even though we got an early start, we didn’t leave the house until well after lunch. After the drive up to Norwood, we stopped at our new storage place and dumped some stuff, so it was late afternoon before we started unloading at the apartment. In the end, it was about ten by the time we finished, after getting stuck on the stairs with the sofa and only getting it up by taking off the feet (déjà vu). To cap off the evening, the door to the truck wouldn’t close, and it took the two of us with all of our weight to finally force it shut. Oh yeah, and then we had to drive all the to Rhode Island and back to grab the last few things and pick up our poor dogs, who hadn't been fed or walked since that morning. And that doesn’t even include the stuff still in my condo in Cambridge, or the stuff in storage in Somerville. How did we accumulate so much stuff? When I was in college, I moved at the drop of a hat, even though I was trucking around more music gear than any one person should ever need. Back then, I once moved five times in fourteen months. These days, with a decade’s worth of furniture and books, it’s not so easy. And the worst part is it’s only temporary…my fiancée will be finishing her postdoc in a year, so in all likelihood it will be time to move yet again. Anyone still willing to work for pizza? |