All the Anticipation

I am running Circular Dichromism experiments in the Biophysics lab today, which means that I have a lot of intermittent time to kill without cellphone access the day before our big move. The condo is undergoing a metamorphosis right now. My parents are paying for the painting as an early birthday present. It's not quite done, but I know that it will be a well-cherished gift.

We did some moving math recently. So our problem was that we are moving from one high-rise to another elevator-necessitating building. You have to schedule the elevators for relatively small increments of time, because everyone else needs the elevators to move in/out. So we only have a 3 hour window to move from one place to the other with a half hour drive in between. Except for when Roche gave me a relocation package, I have always moved myself and for the most part Lee has moved herself. We understand the necessity of bribing friends with pizza and libation to make sure that we could move in that window. It turns out that in this economy it is just as cheap to rent professional movers for a few hours. I was stunned. I think it is just part of being in the midwest again. We are still overcoming reverse-sticker-shock. I really don't miss NY.