After the move

[ilai]

Phew, I'm rising back to the surface for air! I just moved this last weekend along with lokiect, jadia, and purplerecluse to my new apartment past Teele. The movers were pretty good, but we had so much stuff it took them two trips and nine hours. My long weekend was thus spent mostly unpacking and cleaning (jadia and I attacked the kitchen floor for a looong time), and now my room is mostly set up.

So far this week I've been experimenting with different ways to get to Alewife station from my apartment, and made a few new discoveries:

• I refuse to cross Mass Ave where there's no crosswalk
• The area around Alewife where the bike path goes off into Arlington is really dusty from the construction
• Walking along the side of Alewife Brook Parkway without a sidewalk is no fun in slacks
• There are thorns in some of the native flora near Alewife

And I can still walk to Davis Square in less time than it takes me to walk to Alewife, but I'd much rather have the extra sleep in the morning. Though it is nice for the nights when I return home from karate practice.