Long Time, No See

We're sorry about the lapse in posting, but we were hit by Anna's first week of classes, my football special issue and our two-door move within the building. Exhale. So we're in the new apartment, which looks at lot like a box factory at the moment, although Anna says she'll set to work on fixing that when she returns from Austerweil's wedding. We'll post some pictures of the new place when the time is right.

The move itself was a fairly traumatic experience. The previous tenants were out on Monday, but the owners said they wanted to do an inspection, so we had to delay moving the dinky stuff until the following day. Apparently what inspection meant was marching in the next day and firing the on-site manager, who we liked a lot. I felt distinctly like a criminal as I moved boxes in and he started working the phone to find somewhere to stay, since his firing was also his eviction. I eventually had to leave for a while because the emotion was too much. Alex and April were the heroes of the move. We got everything cleared out in the space of three hours and went for sushi.

So, in no particular order, here are the things we've learned this week.

• Our building owners are not very nice people. And that comes as a surprise because they're a couple of cute old folks, and you expect them to be grandparently, only then they're chastising you for the dust you never noticed on the blinds. Or telling you to take down the flower painted on the insulation squares on the wall, which is part of the reason you took the apartment. Or passive-aggressively picking paper clips off your old floor and making comments about it. I'm sure we'll be hearing from them when it comes to security deposit.
  
• We certainly did live (and clean our floors) before we had a Swiffer, it's just hard to remember how.
• I now like just enough sushi to be able go out and eat it with people, which was actually my new year's resolution. Strange resolution, you might say, but I'm someone who has to work on being social, and ruling out a class of food that a lot of people like, struck me as a defense mechanism that needed to be breached. So there you go.
  
• Once you get used to living with a wireless connection, it's really hard to go back. I am on a dial-up until Friday and I'm considering spending more time in the office, that's how bad it is.
  

So that's it. Fritz and Queenie are in town until Wednesday, so we'll be trying the new restaurant in town, among other things.