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September 05, 2001
Suburbia?
So. I am moved! I abandoned Chelsea for the 'burbs on Saturday, and so far, I'm liking it a whole lot. It's so quiet at night, all you can hear are crickets chirping. No car alarms, blaring stereos, screaming drunken people, suspicious popping sounds that you tell yourself are just firecrackers... And the people smile and say hi to you, instead of glaring at you suspiciously!
It is a good thing that Patrick works out, though, since it was just him, me, and my mom lugging my crap from the third floor apartment. Poor Patrick got to carry most of the heavy stuff -- I had been expecting my mom to pack up the last of my stuff, and clean, but it was much cooler outside my apartment than it was inside, so she sat on the curb in the breeze for quite a while. My poor cat was terribly confused and unhappy -- once we started moving furniture out, we shut her in her cat carrier. She cried and howled and thrashed around -- legs and tails and noses kept poking out of the holes in the carrier, and she managed to flip the whole thing over a couple of times. Poor kitty. Once we got to the new place, she was happy, though she wouldn't come downstairs for quite a while. If we were downstairs, she would sit at the top of the steps and cry, but I couldn't coax her down. Eventually I carried her down the stairs and plopped her in the living room, and that seemed to clear up her mental confusion. Now, she's happy as can be -- she's checked out all the windowsills, sniffed everything in the apartment thoroughly, found loads of places to hide... and she seems to adore Patrick. She camps outside his bedroom door, and follows him around meowing at him...
My commute is decent -- longer than from Chelsea, but not nearly so crowded. The bus ride is actually relaxing. Plenty of time to listen to music or read (or sleep, as I too often do in the mornings...)
Other than the move... work is busy. The new semester has started -- they should really figure out some way of easing us back into the school year from the slow pace of summer. It's just not right to have hundreds of confused new students descend on you all of a sudden, when you're used to a lazy sort of pace.
I start school again tomorrow -- last class, and then I'm done! I am currently waiting for my student loan information -- and, since I am an idiot, it may take a while to reach me. (I filled out a change-of-address card for the post office, and put the wrong address on it. Yes, I'm a moron. Shut up. I fixed it today. They have a preprinted form for that, which proves I am not the only idiot out there.)
My mom and my brother are doing well -- my mom's suspicious bug bite has nearly healed, though it has left a small scar. I think it was just a spider bite. My brother's leg got much worse, but he finally got a decent doctor to look at it, and got blood tests and good antibiotics, and he seems to be on the mend. I haven't heard from him lately, but since he generally calls only when something is wrong, no news is good news!
And now, I am off to hunt up some dinner.
Posted by Mary Ellen at September 5, 2001 07:03 PM