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Today marks two and a half years since I moved to Illinois... and there are less than one hundred hours now until ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cheshcat and I leave for the airport to move to Oxford.
The immanent departure means that things are definitely getting down to the wire now. Today, I spent much of the day bustling about the lab preparing for my departure (or, as they put it, "termination") on Friday. I returned keys and my parking sticker and my cryptocard. I signed over my laptop, even though I get to keep it for a few more days. I spoke to payroll about my last check. I filled out the "termination questionnaire." Et cetera, et cetera, and so forth...
Besides wrapping up lab business, I also met with the person who is going to buy Pazu (my Honda Civic) from me on Friday and got a $200 deposit from him. Wow. Can't believe Pazu is going to be gone soon. I've had that car for over seven and a half years... it may not sound like much, but I have owned that car for 1/4 of my life! (And more than half of my adult life) I'd like to keep Pazu, but it really does not make sense if I am going to be gone for four years. We're also selling Lucretia I (cheshcat's Dodge Stratus, the one that got stolen) to polymorphism in July, which takes care of two out of the three cars. Not sure yet what we are going to do with Lucretia II, the Infiniti G20. For certain, we will keep it for cheshcat to use until July. After that, I am not clear if we will keep it or sell it. Too far in the future to tell right now, and I am somewhat torn. It could bring in a fair bit of money, but it is also the nicest car that either cheshcat or I have ever owned.
Speaking of endings, I also had my last muscle toning class tonight. It was the usual hour of pain, of course, but afterward a lot of people said that they would be sad to see me go. That was sweet, since I have only been taking the class since January, while some of the other people have been enrolled for a decade or even two. After the class, my instructor told me that she had something for me in her car. Supposedly, it was the "fabulous prize" for perfect attendance in the session that just ended. Actually, it was more of a going away present: Three books on SCUBA diving, one by my instructor (""Diver's Guide to the Kitchen" -- because she evidently does not know that I am a vegetarian) and two by her husband ("The 100 Best Great Lakes Shipwrecks", Volumes I & II). All three books were inscribed by their authors, which I thought was very sweet of her.
Ran some more errands on the way home, at the computer supply store (needed a Serial ATA-to-IDE converter) and the pet supply store (bought 120 pounds of cat litter and 60 pounds of cat food). Now I plan to spend the rest of the night getting more and more prepared to depart. And, I hope, possibly spare some time for a game of GO withgyades.
cheshcat and I leave for the airport to move to Oxford. The immanent departure means that things are definitely getting down to the wire now. Today, I spent much of the day bustling about the lab preparing for my departure (or, as they put it, "termination") on Friday. I returned keys and my parking sticker and my cryptocard. I signed over my laptop, even though I get to keep it for a few more days. I spoke to payroll about my last check. I filled out the "termination questionnaire." Et cetera, et cetera, and so forth...
Besides wrapping up lab business, I also met with the person who is going to buy Pazu (my Honda Civic) from me on Friday and got a $200 deposit from him. Wow. Can't believe Pazu is going to be gone soon. I've had that car for over seven and a half years... it may not sound like much, but I have owned that car for 1/4 of my life! (And more than half of my adult life) I'd like to keep Pazu, but it really does not make sense if I am going to be gone for four years. We're also selling Lucretia I (
cheshcat's Dodge Stratus, the one that got stolen) to polymorphism in July, which takes care of two out of the three cars. Not sure yet what we are going to do with Lucretia II, the Infiniti G20. For certain, we will keep it for cheshcat to use until July. After that, I am not clear if we will keep it or sell it. Too far in the future to tell right now, and I am somewhat torn. It could bring in a fair bit of money, but it is also the nicest car that either cheshcat or I have ever owned.Speaking of endings, I also had my last muscle toning class tonight. It was the usual hour of pain, of course, but afterward a lot of people said that they would be sad to see me go. That was sweet, since I have only been taking the class since January, while some of the other people have been enrolled for a decade or even two. After the class, my instructor told me that she had something for me in her car. Supposedly, it was the "fabulous prize" for perfect attendance in the session that just ended. Actually, it was more of a going away present: Three books on SCUBA diving, one by my instructor (""Diver's Guide to the Kitchen" -- because she evidently does not know that I am a vegetarian) and two by her husband ("The 100 Best Great Lakes Shipwrecks", Volumes I & II). All three books were inscribed by their authors, which I thought was very sweet of her.
Ran some more errands on the way home, at the computer supply store (needed a Serial ATA-to-IDE converter) and the pet supply store (bought 120 pounds of cat litter and 60 pounds of cat food). Now I plan to spend the rest of the night getting more and more prepared to depart. And, I hope, possibly spare some time for a game of GO with
gyades.
Tags:
- anniversary,
- cars,
- cheshcat,
- fermilab,
- fitness,
- go,
- moving,
- scuba,
- vegetarian