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Or perhaps now I should say "book boxes," as the shelves are starting to empty out. Although I will not be moving for 6 weeks, I am starting to pack in the hope that I can do a few boxes each day without hurting my hand. I know that packing everything in June would break me. I'm starting with books, because packing books is simple and orderly, especially compared to packing fragile bulky things like cookware. (And I want to be more confident that winter is over, before I pack winter clothes.) For books other than reference books*, I may want to keep them, but that doesn't mean I expect to lay hands on them in the next few weeks.

I have some good moving boxes left over from my last move. Thanks,

aedifica and

corylea! I can still see the record of those earlier moves and it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. I feel like that work of trimming down the book stash is becoming more visible. The boxes that had been labeled "W-Z" and "W" and "V-W" are now relabeled "W-Z" and "U-W" and "T-U." Some of the sturdy little book boxes got wet over the years, but fewer books might line up with fewer boxes.

*It wasn't until I started packing that I moved all the heavy reference books to the shelf behind where I sit for online teaching, so I could get them without going across the room.

Many of you have heard me complain about this apartment. It's gorgeous. It's huge. I have been very, very, lucky in my housemates. What's the catch? Mostly, the catch is the landlord. I would also like to be closer to a supermarket and to buses that run frequently and reliably towards places where rich high school students might want tutoring. Thus I am planning a move from Somerville back to Arlington.

I am getting professional movers, because I have the kind of furniture that needs to be moved by weightlifters and cursing. But they are expensive, so I'd like to minimize the time I need them to work. I've also discovered it's very inconvenient to move even a few miles without a car to fetch empty boxes, or take fragile things to the new place. And I'm starting to feel dubious about my ability to pack everything with the body I have available.*

Do any of you wonderful local people have time in the next few weeks when you could help? Boxes you could bring, or rides you could give, or an hour you could spend helping me pack?

*The bodies I have available. Redbird is visiting for the week, but she has a hand injury and I don't want to make that worse. (This is nominally the same problem I had 15 years ago, that transformed into complex disabling chronic pain through overuse, reinjury, mismanagement, and spectacular bad luck.) So she can't do very much, and I am terrified of having her do anything at all.

I need to do a lot of things before I move out of this apartment. The big ones, obviously, are finding a suitable* place to move TO, packing everying** into boxes***, and moving it. It won't be feasible to go look at potential apartments, nor to go get empty boxes, until the weather clears. So I am having a quiet day at home, beginning to sort through the everything.

I have 4 boxes of documents I've saved over the years, for a variety of reasons. Is there any reason to keep car insurance or purchase records when I don't own the car anymore? How long do I need to I save tax returns? Health insurance records? (I want to keep the dental insurance records because they're kind of funny.) Bank statements? Documents about my student loan, which was completely paid in 2001? I might be able to shred more than half this stuff, which would clear up a couple of boxes to start packing.

*I'd like to thank those of you who pointed me toward Sovay, who helped me redefine "suitable." We plan to share, and having an ally in the search is making the whole process less terrifying.

**Everything I expect to fit into half a large 2-bedroom apartment. That's quite a bit more than would fit into a studio, but I still need to do some culling.

***The only empty boxes currently in the apartment are shoeboxes.

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