The Moving, Part II

Countdown to fall semester: nine days

The former girlfriend signed her lease at the new place today, and we signed the paperwork for this place and stuck it in the mail. She's getting a truck on Monday, and by Tuesday she will be officially out and gone to start her new life living in Wichita. Likewise, I will be starting my new life of living alone, completely on my own.

It will be a short experience of living alone, however, before the semester starts. I'll have but two days to try to take care of all of my around-the-house stuff before orientation on Thursday and Friday, and then a short weekend before classes start. Tomorrow, if the schedule on Flat State University's website is correct, my student loan should disburse to my student account. If so, it will be good timing -- I'll need to begin getting the rest of the items on my list, either from Amazon or somewhere else, of course allowing for the items friends have sent to come to me in the mail.

This weekend will be spent packing, disassembling, and assembling various items. Tonight is the first preseason football game that I can actually watch on network TV -- Chiefs vs. Bucs -- and I was planning to watch it while assembling the coffee table that Andrea sent me. Unfortunately, it did not arrive today. Nothing arrived today, in fact -- the mailman must have never come down our street, as evidenced by the fact that I put the flag up and put the water bill and my parents' birthday cards in the box to mail out, and we put the landlord letter in there as well this afternoon when the former girlfriend returned home, and they're still there. Mind you, I put the first stuff in the mail well before noon, so it's not like I could've missed it.

Besides, I have friends who have sent me packages in the mail, not via UPS or FedEx, that should have arrived today, but didn't -- so I know the mailmen never showed up. This isn't the first time this has happened, either. This probably happens three or four times a year.

Yes, I know, first world problems, etc.

Anyway, on to other news.

While I had the link to my Twitter and this blog listed on my Facebook page for a while, I decided to remove it in preparation for the book's imminent publication. I have kept both links on my Google+ page, as I am much more selective as to who I friend on there and what I allow to be seen there. I also have no current of former coworkers (aside from fellow grad students) that I've friended on Google+ that may give me shit about the book, and I have not mentioned the book at all on any of my status updates on Facebook -- in fact, I have spoken of it very little there, and only between friends, for reasons which should be apparent. That book, if it's ever read by anyone I used to work with in that store -- despite how nice and conciliatory I am in it, which is a major change from the original blog posts it came from -- is still going to make me some enemies. It won't make me any lawsuits, because no actual places or people are named, but still. Writing a "tell all" sort of book is always going to make some enemies. I'm hoping, however, that it creates more dollars than enemies.