6 posts tagged “moving”
A very fast and dirty update -
I got my things form UPS, a large amount of which were broken, but thankfully nothing extremely expensive and yes, I did insure them.
School is awesome. Studying with Ken has been great so far, and my playing has gotten exponentially better. I seem to have finally cracked the altissimo problem, and I'm getting up to a D#4 now. I'm making really good progress on the Concertino, and I am starting a new Sonata this week. I also have a very cool duo with violin this semester, and some sax quartet and sax orchestra work. We're working on Lauba's Les 7 Iles, which is very very hard, so I'm understudying on it, but we will be rehearsing and performing it for Jean-Marie Londeix in only about 10 days. Never did I imagine I'd be rehearsing with Londeix less than a month after moving here.
Still no internet, TV, or phone service, so I am kind of incommunicado for the time being, but I will post when I have new info. Also, cartoon:
UPS has all my shit. It's in Watertown. I don't actually know where Watertown is, but I also have to go there to get a new driver's license so the federal government will give me more cash money for school.
If the previous tenant of my apartment had gotten out on the day he was supposed to and not 5 days late - especially being that he was already 3 weeks late - I would have been there when UPS tried to deliver all the packages I shipped to myself and they wouldn't have gotten sent to a warehouse in idontknowwherethefuckitis. But I guess I'm going down... going down to Watertown.
Today I would like to get my cats into the apartment. They've spent almost a week living in my sister's place, rotating between rooms so they don't meet the dog. There have been 2 cat-dog encounters, neither of which have gone especially well, so I don't enjoy the situation. I also don't enjoy kenneling the cats while I move boxes in and out of my apartment, so there's that, too.
It's still very drab here, and Becky tells me the weather in Chicago is not any better. Ordinarily that would be bad news, assuming the weather moves to the northeast as it usually does, but the forecasters in the area seem to disagree. They are predicting sunny days in the low 70s for the rest of the week. Still, that's much cooler than I am used to. It will be nice not to have to put on sunscreen in September, though.
At this point I'm really searching for things to write, so I'll cap it and come back later.
It's cold here. And really, I mean that. I have been here since the morning of the 24th and it has not once been above 70 degrees, which frightens me. I've lived in cold climes before, Chicago being extremely cold, but not the same kind of cold. In Chicago the wind blows 35 miles per hour all winter long and it's as dry as a desert. It also doesn't come down from the 80s until the end of September. Obviously being at a more northern latitude and right next to the ocean in this city is going to change the dynamic a bit. If it's 65 degrees on August 27th, I am slightly concerned about what it will be like on Halloween.
It took 18 hours of driving - which is far longer than it has taken in the past - several highly caffeinated drinks, loads of effort, and a significant amount of money, but I am in the Boston area. I am not, however, in my apartment. The previous tenant extended his stay even further to the 27th of August, meaning he has now taken up almost an entire month of my lease and I will probably have to sign a new one.
Unfortunately, SBC is a company staffed by idiots. So when I requested that my DSL be shut off on the 23rd, they of course shut it off a week early.
I've seemingly been packing things for a month, but yet there are still only 10 boxes ready to ship in my living room. I packed another one today, full of dishes and serving plates, and I have to pack tomorrow a box of things like a waffle iron, blender, and other assorted kitchen appliances. What comes to mind is, how often do I use this waffle iron? When do I need a sifter? Have I ever even made gravy with this separator?
