moving: worst, or actual fucking worst?

[tiltedsyllogism]

there was this period of time about three months ago, in the burned-out haze right after I submitted my dissertation for pseudo-final consideration, that I sat on my couch a lot and thought about how, at some later time, I would probably look back with a combination of wonderment and resentment, and wonder how I could have wasted all that time

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[airynothing]

Aww I was just wondering today when the move was! Three weeks, huh? Good luck with everything!

[tiltedsyllogism]

actually, the move is... a week from Friday, ack. The other 1.25 weeks are everything else, too!

and thank you <3

[lux_obscura]

I have literally just (as in today) survived my dear friend moving out of our shared place, and even though I was not involved in the actual moving I wanted to climb a wall, scream and cry.

There is seriously NOTHING in life that is worse to me than moving. Not death, dismemberment, illness, nothing. But put me smack in the middle of something that upset my carefully constructed and safe home-base and I am miserable and ruined.

So you have my sympathies on that one. ;)

[tiltedsyllogism]

you know, now that you mention it, I think I am ready to concede that dismemberment is probably worse than moving. I do better with chronic pain than acute... which is why moving is also so terrible, ha.

thanks for the sympathies. :) it also helps give me some perspective to realize that it actually does make the moving a little less heinous, to know i have the sympathies of others. some kinds of suffering are harder to mitigate in that way, as you know....

[tiltedsyllogism]

I cannot tell you how appealing that option sounds. (We have endless, ridiculous numbers of books, and they are all temptingly flammable....) I keep thinking of that Garfield cartoon in which Jon says "we're going to visit my parents!" and Garfield thinks "Maybe if I die, I won't have to go."

and thanks <3

[saki101]

Congratulations on graduating and new job and book review

[tiltedsyllogism]

thanks so much for the advice! I've lived through a couple of rounds of the radical-purge-impulse already, just in this one move, and always tried to hold back (the inner Aristotelian resumes command eventually, ha). This is all a really useful way to think about the whole thing, because it definitely is an opportunity as well as a trial. Thank you for helping me straighten my head out about it!

[violethuntress]

I second everyone here--moving is the worst and I've never done it without crying.

But YES congrats on everything--graduating, job etc.

I am also going to give you my heartfelt sympathies on teaching new classes, especially a whole bunch of new classes all at once. Because that shit isn't easy. It is hard, hard, hard work. Spreading it out would be nice, wouldn't it? But you will get through it and it will pay off! :)

[tiltedsyllogism]

thanks! the new classes part isn't so bad: it'll be freshman humanities, which is a kind of class I know really well, and just two sections of the same class. (it's not a proper job we're moving for, just a better class of adjuncting; they're paying us well and treating us well, and it gets us away from the ravening hordes of job-marketeers that hover around this or any major research institution.) The curriculum is different - both texts and the sorts of framing questions that inform the way hum classes are structured at the new place - but I'm confident I can swing it. It's just another layer of things to do, and the sort of thing best done in relative tranquility, rather than all in a scramble. which is not what will happen, I'm afraid. oh well. thanks for the good wishes!