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Things are... not going as planned.
In hindsight, they could go a lot worse. Though I have moved many many times before (14 times, in fact, counting from college on) this is the very first time I have moved without parental guidance, and the price of independence is not slight. So, I have learned and done many strange and wonderful things, and have made some critical timing errors. Yes, I should have started a month before I did. No, I shouldn't have held out for a Davis place as long as I did. I know that now, and am wiser for it. I think I did many other things right, not the least of which was rely on the network of friends and acquaintances I have made here in the last year to help me in the search.
But at the moment, it leaves me homeless, crashing with my parents in Waterville, Maine, and waiting for updates on the Cambridgeport front. Charles and I were hoping for a Wednesday night meeting with the landlord, but this fell through: LL wanted a bucket of rental, employment, and financial references before s/he would even look at me, literally. I forwarded what I could to Charles, and drove north.
Mind you, I would have driven north anyway, since I very badly wanted to plug poor old undef into its new home up here at Arcus. Only this afternoon we finally got it settled, and its webserver works again, more or less. Now I have to get the domain updated (a horrible process involving sending faxes to Verisign, waiting, calling them, being told that they never got any faxes, why don't you try this other number, repeat 1d4 times) and meantime jmac.org doesn't exist for the Nth time during 2001, and all my email is bouncing, and I don't have a phone number or postal address either, sorry. Fucking kiddies. Why'd they pick now to do this? Sigh
The party went OK. Nobody blanched at the costume, though I did maybe overblow the in-character shtick a little bit. I blame Cthulhia and her accursed Radio Free Vestibule album for the bad inlfuence. At least one or two people took photos; will post when avialable.
In hindsight, they could go a lot worse. Though I have moved many many times before (14 times, in fact, counting from college on) this is the very first time I have moved without parental guidance, and the price of independence is not slight. So, I have learned and done many strange and wonderful things, and have made some critical timing errors. Yes, I should have started a month before I did. No, I shouldn't have held out for a Davis place as long as I did. I know that now, and am wiser for it. I think I did many other things right, not the least of which was rely on the network of friends and acquaintances I have made here in the last year to help me in the search.
But at the moment, it leaves me homeless, crashing with my parents in Waterville, Maine, and waiting for updates on the Cambridgeport front. Charles and I were hoping for a Wednesday night meeting with the landlord, but this fell through: LL wanted a bucket of rental, employment, and financial references before s/he would even look at me, literally. I forwarded what I could to Charles, and drove north.
Mind you, I would have driven north anyway, since I very badly wanted to plug poor old undef into its new home up here at Arcus. Only this afternoon we finally got it settled, and its webserver works again, more or less. Now I have to get the domain updated (a horrible process involving sending faxes to Verisign, waiting, calling them, being told that they never got any faxes, why don't you try this other number, repeat 1d4 times) and meantime jmac.org doesn't exist for the Nth time during 2001, and all my email is bouncing, and I don't have a phone number or postal address either, sorry. Fucking kiddies. Why'd they pick now to do this? Sigh
The party went OK. Nobody blanched at the costume, though I did maybe overblow the in-character shtick a little bit. I blame Cthulhia and her accursed Radio Free Vestibule album for the bad inlfuence. At least one or two people took photos; will post when avialable.