November 25, 2004
How do you do it?
How? I'm deathly serious when I ask that question. You're amongst my closest friends reading this and many of you have relocated across countries and continents, in some cases several times over. You've moved whole families and countless belongings across thousands of miles and for the most part you seem to have come through the experience with your sanity intact (or at least as much of it as you had to begin with).
By comparison, I only have myself to worry over and my possessions are relatively few, yet the thought of ever having to go through anything like this is enough to drive me to despair. I can't stand it, I just can't. I'm looking forward to taking hold of my flat, really I am, but gazing around me now, at the remaining odds and ends strewn around that I've yet to find room for, I feel at such a low ebb.
I'm meeting Nicky and Kerry at the airport tomorrow, and then I'm going to whisk them around the city and have fun, darnit. Just as well - in case you hadn't guessed already, I'm in desperate need of something to take my mind off all this
Thought iMark at November 25, 2004 10:38 PM | TrackBackAh my good, dear friend. I know your pains, I know your agonies. And I know all too well your feeling of insanity.
You mention that we your friends came through our moves with sanity intact, which may be true on reflection at the completion of the move. BUT you mayhap forget the temporary loss of same /during/ the move. Cast your mind back to the summer of 2001, Menlo Park, and the naming of the third car in our convoy. "Black Mood" was not merely a clever take on the colour of the vehicle in question.
If it's any consolation, you're at the worst part just now and things get much better from here. The odds and ends stage is the killer (at least it has been for me in all of my 8 moves). Just quarter the area and take it section at a time. Alternatively, wait for friends and/or family to turn up and dump it all into a series of boxes all labeled "Crap" [1]. Works every time ;-)
[1] This is the infamous "rAdam Technique(tm)" which you may have seen in action during the abovementioned move.
Posted by: Kevin at November 26, 2004 06:58 PM