Saturday, May 27, 2006
(6:41 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
The new Lincoln Square Headquarters is now fully operational
The move was completed early this evening. The last major item moved was a dining room table, which we put in the back porch/storage room to create a more welcoming and relaxed atmosphere. In order to save on the cost of a moving van, I took multiple loads in my truck, supplemented by one load in Hayley's car and by the borrowing of a larger truck to carry the mattress and bedspring.Unfortunately, that truck was towed within five minutes of parking it in the long-vacant KFC lot where we and our neighbors routinely park for our momentary convenience -- forcing me and Lauren (who was already nervous about borrowing this truck in the first place) to drive down to a tow yard near 36th and Ashland in order to pay those fucking bastards $150 so that we could get back the borrowed truck that they stole from us. I mean seriously, the guy had to have seen us pull in and get out of the truck. Anyway, this obviously blew my original plan of saving money by not renting a moving van, in addition to giving Lauren the privilege of seeing me turn into a huge raging green monster in ripped-up purple jeans. I had this kind of "Jack Bauer" mindset about the whole thing -- first I was going to try to catch up with the tow truck, run him off the road, and force him to give it back. This was after I loudly and repeatedly demanded that the woman at the tow lot call off her driver and bring the vehicle back, culminating in my getting hung up on. Apparently even when we finally arrived at the tow lot, I was still in Jack Bauer mode almost unconsciously, because Lauren told me that I was really scoping out the fence, as though I was trying to see what it would take to climb over it and break the truck out.
This came at the end of a day during which I did not eat anything whatsoever. I'm still not sure what causes this obsessive single-mindedness in me, but now I at least factor it in -- I kept myself from doing any packing at all throughout the week, because I knew that once I started, I would continue working non-stop until I was fully moved in. If not for the wasted hour and a half of driving to 36th and Ashland in order to pay $150 to the people who stole the truck I was borrowing, I would have probably been able to get everything moved yesterday, but I still had a couple trips left this morning.
Right now I'm feeling absolutely drained, but I can't sleep. I might actually go to Burger King, pathetic as that is. After years of abstaining from the stuff -- not out of any kind of principled objection, but just out of never having any desire to eat it -- I've been having fast food cravings lately. Plus, I mean, it's Memorial Day weekend -- how could I not have a hamburger?
On a positive note, I managed to rearrange my books in such a way as to actually gain some free space, thus gaining me a few more weeks in the grad student's ongoing battle to avoid buying another bookshelf.
Plus, obviously the Internet is up and running. Comcast must have changed something in their processes within the last year or so, because my experience was distinctly non-nightmarish this time around. The amount of time they keep you on hold, however, remains ridiculous.
Anyway, yeah, the The Weblog's new Lincoln Square Headquarters is fully operational. All blogging activities at the Logan Square Headquarters have substantially ceased due to lack of Internet access (hopefully with the exception of occasional reconnaissance missions to gather photos for cat blogging).
