Author: Teel

I should be asleep by now. I am going to go to sleep now.

For the last two days I have worked until I was too sore and tired to move, then set down and read and responded to as much email as I could, read everything new on the site, and gone to sleep. Too tired to make a post.

I’m too tired to make a post right now, actually. So I’ll say that I’m too tired to make a post, but that perhaps in the next couple of days I might find the time/energy to make a proper post about what’s been going on.

Suffice it to say that we got just about everything moved to Pine today and I’m going to try to get this place clean over the next few days before I move definitively to Pine. And I’ve been too busy and tired to post or respond to emails except the most immediate. I will catch up. I assure you.

Two weeks ago I didn’t know where I would be at the end of February. Last week we decided I would move to Pine, starting to move my stuff up there tomorrow, Tuesday, February 11th. Now just about everything I own will be moved up to Pine by the end of the day tomorrow. A fairly large load went up suddenly on Sunday. I don’t know when exactly I did it, presumably while I was moving around heavy boxes and unweildy furniture, but I hurt myself a bit. My left knee, which has been giving me trouble off and on for years, hasn’t stopped giving me trouble since mid-Sunday. Also, I seem to have strained … I don’t know, most of my left leg below the knee.

I’ve had today to try to pack up the rest of everything I own and get it all ready to move tomorrow. Except that even if I’m not carrying a heavy box, my left leg seems to want to collapse underneath me. Which would be fun if I weren’t carrying heavy boxes and looking forward to carrying much heavier furniture tomorrow. Loading and unloading and loading and unloading. We were fairly hurried on Sunday to try to beat the sun and we forgot a few things we were supposed to get done. Like unpacking many of the boxes or at least finding some empty boxes to bring back down for the move tomorrow. Or grabbing the blankets we used Sunday for padding more furniture tomorrow. Or inventing an anti-gravity device for assisting us with everything we’re going to do tomorrow.

I was really hoping to get the blankets back.

So I’m trying not to strain my leg any more, though it seems only too eager to get itself properly twisted. I’m doing my laundry so it’s all clean before the move (and because it isn’t nearly as heavy as boxes full of books.) I’m way behind. I should be done by now. I should be in bed so I can get up early tomorrow and be fresh and full of the energy I’m going to need. I started writing this well before tomorrow became today, but I keep getting up and doing a little bit of the work before finishing the post. I don’t think it’s Pine or the situation I’m moving to which is slowing me down. Perhaps it is the process of moving itself. When I moved into this house about 20 months ago I swore I would go through moving again for at least three or four years if I could avoid it. This is my seventh move to/in/from Tempe, which started in the summer of 1997. That’s quite a bit of packing things up, disassembling furniture, loading things into cars or trucks or U-Haul trucks, driving carefully, unloading things, carrying them up stairs or down stairs or both, reassembling furniture, unpacking things, trying to figure out where they’re supposed to go… I think it’s the physical act of moving I’m sick and tired of.

I’m going to go get back to this. I think the utter lateness may fuel me to get more done, faster. Except that my leg seems to be getting worse. Stupid leg. i should have had my legs replaced by robot legs years ago.

In case he hasn’t wrapped his mind around what TrackBack can do for him, this will help a little: I’m going to link to a post Mo made today.

See, he linked to a couple of things and I really appreaciate the second one, a short piece by Terry Jones, and I know that some of Modern Evil’s readers don’t look at what Mo says. Presumably because they don’t know who he is. Which is fine. I know who he is and like what he has to say enough to add his posts to Modern Evil. And I definitely recommend you check out at least this post.

So, I called around and set up to have all my utilities shut off next Monday (or Tuesday, for the ones not open on President’s Day), and last I called AT&T to try to cancel my mobile phone service. They’re being ridiculous about the whole thing. Today I learned for the first time that I’ve been under a one year contract with them since 5/10/2002, and that if I want to cancel my service early it will cost me not less than $175. (Interestingly, about 90 minutes into the phone call when I finally got a supervisor, he tried offerring me an alternative way to cencel that could cost upwards of $400…) Conversely, I could buy a new phone and hope it works in Pine (they’re not 100% sure they offer service there) and pay the monthly fee for the rest of the contract I’ve only just learned about today for maybe having service. Or, I can not buy a new phone, switch to the cheapest plan available to my current phone in Phoenix, and just pay them for the next three months for nothing.

OR I can find someone else who wants a mobile phone and have my contract switched into their name. They would only be obligated to pay for service for the remainder of the contract, under whatever plan they choose, using my phone. They could choose to continue using AT&T or cancel or whatever after 5/10/2003. SO does anyone not already have a mobile phone? Maybe you want to try out AT&T’s GSM/GPRS service for a few months before you sign up on your own. Maybe the voices in your head tell you to give me $175 to pay them off right now. Whatever. Anyone who would be interested in such a thing, please email me at teel@modernevil.com.

I just got word that my electronically submitted tax returns, both federal and state, were accepted. Hooray! I shall be receiving much refunds directly into my checking account soon. Yay!

Better yet: With the move to Pine, if everything goes as we expect it to, my only income this year will be a couple months’ worth of unemployment and I won’t have to file a tax return at all next year.

Ooh, unless everything goes even better than planned and within the next 10.5 months I become a successful professional artist and/or writer, in which case I won’t mind having to file taxes because I’ll have made money doing what I love.

I’m so tired right now. Next up: A post about moving.