Monday was a good day. I turned in the final chapter of my DC Modernism study to my boss for review. It was a huge relief. While there's still a lot of work to finish (edits, bibliography, footnotes, formatting), I feel pretty good about putting it to rest by Friday and handing it over to someone else to tweak and submit. Then, this afternoon I obtained the permit we need to park our storage crate on the street for the weekend. I also tied up some loose ends for my job interview next week (yikes), confirmed hotel reservations, cooked an awesome dinner, and sold a couple more items on Craigslist. Jesse was incredibly productive and cleaned out the closet, as well as put away some winter clothes that we definitely won't need before September. 
See the list? Lots of things accomplished! So, why the heck am I awake at 4:30am? I had no trouble going to sleep (except for the happy jig I did for Jesse before retiring to bed). When I rolled over at 2:45am, shaking my fists in the air out of sheer frustration, I realized this time my lack of sleep is not coming from dread. For the first time since we started this moving process, I am truly excited - to the point of not sleeping. After tossing and turning for another 20 minutes, I decided to just get up and keep myself busy. So far, the things I've accomplished between 3am and 4:15am:
- Cleaned out items underneath bathroom sink, which included about a dozen bars of hotel soap. I don't like hotel soap.
- Added item to above list: stage intervention with my husband about his random hoarding habits (soap, mobiles, what's next?)
- Had a snack of leftover pasta salad from our going away party this weekend (more on that another time, writing about it still makes me cry).
- Updated Quicken and our moving budget spreadsheet.
- Began organizing closet, but caused an avalanche of posters and wrapping paper tubes to fall on my head. Decided to do something a little more quiet - like blogging and more snacking.
So, here I am, alternating between my new (temporary) miniature desk and our couch that now lives in the middle of the apartment. We moved it there for a Craigslister to inspect and she'll pick it up this evening. There's at least another hour to go before the alarm goes off and Jesse and I go out for our morning exercise. I think lots of coffee should be on our "meals" menu for tomorrow. I dread the sun coming up, because that means back to work for me.
2 comments:
Where will the DC Modernism study be published? I want to read it eventually.
Well, it won't be published. The study is for the DC Historic Preservation Office, so I imagine eventually it will be made available to the public. Maybe on their website? Or more likely a dark, dusty bookshelf.
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