Wibblelog

Three days left til I move. The moving truck comes friday. I finally heard back from the director of engineering in Cambridge, and he is pleased to have me transfer there, which is a huge relief. I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to sort any of the bureaucracy out until after I had physically relocated, which would have made things awkward. I still need to convince the HR department that I’m moving, but in theory that shouldn’t be too difficult - just some paperwork, more or less.

Things remaining to do:

• Schedule a time to drop of my car to have it shipped.
• Mail *another* large chunk of money to the new landlord, for the first month’s rent. Or maybe it’s the last month’s rent - I can’t keep track anymore.
• Finish packing the shit in my apartment.
• Sell off a few more random items (a computer case, a DVD player, an old Sony laptop…)
• Figure out how to have my stuff at work shipped to the new office (some books and some random crap, mostly. Maybe I’ll just move it myself.)
• A dozen other things I’m sure I’m completely forgetting.

I still really don’t want to go, but I’m always super apprehensive about big changes like this. Knowing that I’ll actually have a place to sit and a computer to use when I get to the office in Cambridge makes me feel better, at least. Until today the only people on the east coast who really understood that I am coming there were a pair of managers in New York and one helpdesk employee in Boston.