I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes

So there's this hurricane en route.

Which is going to sweep through NYC later today and then on up to Boston Sunday morning, by which time it may have downgraded to Tropical Storm.

Also, you may have incidentally noticed, we're moving scheduled to move on Sunday.

Yes, we know this is suboptimal.

No, we don't know if the move will really be able to take place. We have to call the movers tonight and see what they say. (When we called them Thursday, they said "Oh yeah, totally going ahead! Unless we can't, of course, in which case we can't reschedule you until Sept. 6, so basically you're screwed!")

So.

Either way, we still have to finish all the packing today just in case, so anyone [local enough to travel safely!] who wants to come over this afternoon and help pack the kitchen, plastic-wrap furniture, etc. will be rewarded with pizza. Probably from Pescatore. :-)

Also, we have a stereo, possibly a vacuum cleaner, and undoubtedly some other fun things (four pounds of potatoes??) still to give away!

Which reminds me also: WTF do I do with an entire box of tech trash (cables, external disk drives, etc)? I have three dead laptops I need to dispose of, I know I can take those to MicroCenter or something, but the rest? (That is, in the next 24 hours with minimal time investment on my part.) reuse?

Whoa -- I meant to post this yesterday (when I cleverly took the T to work so I could stay normal hours even though they closed school at 1:30pm!), and it kind of got away from me. Anyway, happy February!


TUE 2/1
(7-10pm auditions for mitgsp's Yeomen of the Guard. Auditions are Feb 1-3; performances April 29-May 7.) Sadly, no, I don't think I can do this. I really want to do Yeomen. But I have other precluding commitments.

WED 2/2
SNOW DAY (srsly, this is the fourth in 4 weeks!)
I'm actually home all day and night, planning to get some useful work and house things done, but otherwise likely to go a little stir-crazy. If anyone is doing stuff walkable from my house (in the Davis Sq area), or wants to hang out, or maybe come over here later tonight, give a holler.
ETA: 12n SoundBites!

( the rest of February )

You *know* it is humid when MY hair gets frizzy.

In related news, that lightning storm at 3:15am was a thing of awesomeness to behold... except for the part where I would rather have been, y'know, *sleeping* during that time.

At noon, I postponed tonight's planned tremontstshul picnic (Weeks Footbridge, 6:45-8:15pm) to tomorrow, on the strength of 40% chance of thunderstorms.

At 5:15pm, I looked out my office window at the GLOWING blue sky with fluffy white clouds and thought, "Grrr$%@&*! It figures..."

At 6:15, I watched the sky go TOTALLY DARK, and at 6:30 the raindrops are starting to blow fiercely against my office window.

THANK YOU, WUNDERGROUND.COM! YOU ARE VINDICATED!

... Of course, now I have to leave the building in the thick of the storm, but whatever. VINDICATED!

(ergo, what better use of 10 minutes than to post to LJ?? It seems like the farther behind one gets in posting, the less it feels OK to just throw random asides up by way of entries... maybe I'll try to do more of that instead of waiting to compose paragraphs-long updates. But, for now, here I am.)

These days I am busy with a dozen or so major projects, some paid, some volunteer. (The wintertime urge to sleep 10 hours a night is Not Helping; how can I get more hours in my day except by cutting them from the night??) For what feels like weeks, I've been skimming LJ but only rarely able to take time to make comments... or, for that matter, to click on cut-tags. Please know that I have thought of you and responded with laughter, hugs, tears, indignation, or moral support, as appropriate.

Last Thursday's Major Snowstorm meant it took me 3 hours to drive back from Concord to Cambridge -- whereupon we, fools that we are, went to tour the Hotel Marlowe for wedding purposes. (It was gorgeous, but that's a story for another time.) This Sunday's Major Snow Ice Freezing Rain Storm was much better in that I did not have to leave the house At All (even Menschen rehearsal was cancelled), which meant I could stay inside cozily working and cooking (an excellent fish chowder) while Tiger Boy voluntarily went outside to dig out my car like the best husband-to-be ever. :-D

Chanukah, which was nice enough, slipped by all too quickly, and now there's nothing left but the plunge toward 12/25. (Have to finish shopping and shipping for family presents, eek! jessruth and mbarr will each be coming up from NYC, yay! Have to typeset a 500-page book before then, eek! Going to Virginia to the TigerParents Dec 27-31, yay! Returning for First Night, yay!)

And now, back to everything else I was doing. :-}