The word of the day is "awkward"

Awkward - [awk-werd] - adjective - describing the feeling one gets when supervising a 58 year old man with bad knees pack up all of your belongings and move them down 5 flights of stairs.

Today is my official "packout" day, and so far this old man has taken care of my meager 4 boxes of UAB, aka air freight.  I thought I had more stuff, but since there's a chance I won't see this stuff for a month, I'm cramming as much as I can into my trusty little Civic to accompany me on the drive down to DC.  Let's see if it all fits and how I'll be able to load up all by myself from a 5th floor bedroom into a car that doesn't have a parking spot. in Boston. Did I mention it's supposed to snow? Who's excited??

Next up is HHE, aka ground shipment of the rest of my life that's going into storage until I ship out or get posted to DC and have to furnish an apartment all by myself.

It's now been 5 minutes since my packer disappeared down my stairs...maybe I should go check on him.

A Very Stressful Christmas

"According to the Holmes & Rahe* statistical prediction model your score means a significant amount of life change and a significant susceptibility (about 80% probability) to stress-related illness."

It seems that quitting my job to start a new (and very badass) one, moving to a new city, not knowing on which continent I'll be living in 12 months added to an unexpected breakup leaves me with a stress score of 386 and makes me vulnerable to stress-related illnesses.   Vitamin C shots it is!

...wait, those don't contain any real vitamin C?