rollin' stone

after spending 3 days last week traveling to CA and back, working for 1 day, and then spending 3 days at the wedding of good friends up north (3 days = 8 months, if you count what the alcohol took off my life), i've started packing for the move this weekend. the truckers are coming Friday morning, and thanks to my friends (j and a particularly), most everything is taken care of. i really just have the kitchen and plenty of odds and ends to do. MUCH better than I thought. even my office is packed up and cleaned out! and i finished 4 papers!

still can't believe that i actually got this new job - was excited about it for 2 years. hope it lives up to my expectations - but i'll force it to.

i have also decided (positively) not to live on the first floor again. just today, i had to hear a guy with a cast on his leg in a wheelchair smash aluminum cans ONE.BY.ONE. with his good foot on the sidewalk. and then his put-away-wet lady with a gash on her forehead helped him scavenge the move-out rubble. and just now, i saw a bunch of guys pushing a dead car around. the good news is, i think the car belonged to one of pushers, for once.