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A Reasonable Facsimile of Life

  • Jun. 30th, 2009 at 8:49 AM
Diva
We survived the move but are still sans internet at the new place. Seems like it's always a 50/50 proposition getting things installed properly - either it goes flawlessly and we have internet the night we move in, or it's a total botch and we go for a week with no connection. We should have something by tonight, or possibly tomorrow morning. Hopefully I won't have to spend time on the phone not-quite-yelling at anyone tomorrow.

Thank all the powers above and below for my friends. We got everything out of the old place and into the new in about 4 hours (and that was with two trips!) and the old place has been cleaned and tidied and is ready for the landlord to inspect tomorrow.

The new place (which I am thinking of as Babylon - since it has a fabulous garden and we all know I'd be kicked out of Eden - and which Poeso wants to call the Sin Bin) is a disaster area of boxes and displaced furniture and other stuff, but it's starting to shape up. The kitchen is fully unpacked and restocked. I'll be taking a run at making dinner there tomorrow night. And thanks to Shar, the bookcases are unpacked and the front room is less cluttered than it was.

Of course, I'm 4 days behind on LJ and FB and every other internet sort of thing out there, and will probably not get caught up - so if I missed anything important...well why didn't you call me? ;P

And now, back to digging out my work in-box and enjoying that I'm not expected to lift and/or carry anything heavier than a notepad today.

Comments

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[info]punning_pundit wrote:
Jun. 30th, 2009 11:14 pm (UTC)
I promise never to sit by the Rivers of Babylon and weep for having known Zion...

Er, sorry for the obscure reference :)
[info]kailara wrote:
Jun. 30th, 2009 11:20 pm (UTC)
No apology necessarily - I actually know that one. =)

There was a popular vocal piece for a cappella groups to perform when I was in college that uses that reference.
[info]punning_pundit wrote:
Jun. 30th, 2009 11:22 pm (UTC)
Fascinating! I'll have to try and remember to search youtube for that..
[info]kailara wrote:
Jun. 30th, 2009 11:27 pm (UTC)
It's actually a really lovely piece - I always found myself humming it after hearing it at one of the concerts.

Look for the recording by Sweet Honey in the Rock. They do a particularly nice arrangement of it.
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