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July 07, 2002
Crunching Bumper, Wireless Buddha
Where to begin... Last weekend, in what had to be the worst possible weather, we moved out of our apartment on Broadway. It was brutal. 12+ hours of carrying furniture and boxes down from the third floor when it was ninety-one degrees and seventy percent humid. No AC in either place. A week later, I'm still covered in battle scars -- bruises, scratches and blisters. My car is too. Matt[0] tagged my car with the moving van. It could have been much worse though. In an odd way, it broke some of the tension involved with moving. Days of packing and moving in the humidity had us all on the verge of snapping. My body and spirit were rebelling against the world, and I was simply broken.
It took until Wednesday morning to get the very last of my stuff out of the old place (and til Thursday night before I had really recovered), beginning a month and half of homelessness before I start school. I can't move into my new apartment til August 24. Right now, I'm in Washington, D.C. I figured the nation's capital would be a fun place to spend the 4th of July, and it's been a really nice, relaxing weekend with friends.
The rest of July shapes up something like this:
07/08/02: Fly from D.C. back to Boston
07/11/02: Drive from Boston to Troy, NY.
07/14/02: Drive from Troy to Honesdale, PA.
07/15/02: Drive from Honesdale to NYC.
07/17/02: Drive from NYC to Boston
07/18/02: Drive from Boston to Bar Harbor, ME.
07/22/02: Drive from Bar Harbor to Boston
Sometime after that, fly out to L.A.
Expect sporadic updates to the journal over the next month, and virtually none to the other sections. Slow replies to email as well.
Unrelated... I'm posting this from Starbucks, borrowing a wireless connection from an unnamed stranger. I really can't describe how exciting this is. I checked my email in the middle of Copley Square a few weeks ago, in the middle of the DJ Logic show. Wi-Fi is my new friend.
And I'm goatee-less for the first time in two years. Feels very strange (I almost titled this post "Crunching Bumper, Naked Buddha" but figured everyone would be too afraid to actually read it). I look young. Only one person has actually said she liked the look. Everyone else was either too shocked or polite to comment. But there were people who know me well who had never seen me without. And I like reminding myself what my face actually looks like every now and again. The goatee will probably be back shortly though.
Posted by buddha at July 7, 2002 02:42 PM
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picture please
Posted by: jason at July 8, 2002 04:46 AM
sorry... we're over a week into new growth and pictureless. you'll have to wait until the next time around.
Posted by: dan at July 8, 2002 10:41 PM
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