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Re: Moving Tips?
« Reply #45 on: July 20, 2007, 03:32:11 am »
Quote from: linnea on July 10, 2007, 02:03:09 am
Gah, I don't know what to do. This sucks. I hope that I can find an employer that doesn't suck. However, I'm glad that I will never have to make that kind of move again.

If you worked for a government entity, they have to save all the e-mail traffic forever. A FOIA request might yield that e-mail, especially one from a lawyer. Good luck.
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Re: Moving Tips?
« Reply #46 on: July 27, 2007, 08:27:44 pm »
We finally sold our house last weekend after 3 years of being on and off the market.  It's going to be a relief to not have to keep our house looking like nobody lives there when, in fact, we do. 

Any of you parent types have tips specifically for moving with a toddler?  Most of our life is already in a storage unit but we're more concerned about how to not let our kid be terrified in his new bedroom. 
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Re: Moving Tips?
« Reply #47 on: July 27, 2007, 08:42:03 pm »
tip: not that I was a toddler when we moved to Charlotte, but I remember being really freaked out at how big my room seemed without any stuff in it. This was also due to the walls being white. In retrospect, my room in Buffalo Grove was much bigger, so... I don't know. kids are silly.

I am not sure how to fix this. maybe they have such a book as "Joey's New House"

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Joey loved pancakes-- they were his favorite breakfast.
"Eat up quick!" Joey's daddy said. "We're moving to our new house today!"
"Oh boy!" Said Joey, "Will I have a new room and everything?"
"Yep!" Said Daddy, "you'll have a new room, and a new yard to play in, with a big tree!"
Daddy walked around the house-- he had to make sure they weren't leaving anything in their old house.
"I'll miss my room," Joey said, "but will I still see my friends at our new house?"
"Maybe Tommy can come over for dinner, and you'll see him when you go to big-boy school next year!" said mommy

um, maybe I got a bit too into that.
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Re: Moving Tips?
« Reply #48 on: July 27, 2007, 10:09:59 pm »
Quote from: AlohaDawg on July 20, 2007, 03:32:11 am
If you worked for a government entity, they have to save all the e-mail traffic forever. A FOIA request might yield that e-mail, especially one from a lawyer. Good luck.

AugustWest? May I retain your services for such a letter? PM or email me if you have time.
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Re: Moving Tips?
« Reply #49 on: July 28, 2007, 03:02:37 am »
inev, because of that weird fan-fic deal, I had to take away the can I just gave you.
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Re: Moving Tips?
« Reply #50 on: July 28, 2007, 03:33:51 am »
Quote from: Nabubrush drinks (a lot) on July 28, 2007, 03:02:37 am
inev, because of that weird fan-fic deal, I had to take away the can I just gave you.

That was fanfic? I thought he was quoting from a childhood kid book?
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Re: Moving Tips?
« Reply #51 on: July 28, 2007, 03:57:49 am »
inev, if you're doing fic, can I request Flitwick/McGonagall?
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Re: Moving Tips?
« Reply #52 on: July 28, 2007, 04:00:44 am »
Quote from: linnea on July 27, 2007, 10:09:59 pm
AugustWest? May I retain your services for such a letter? PM or email me if you have time.

Sure, I'll send you some language, but it may be the first of the week.
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Re: Moving Tips?
« Reply #53 on: July 28, 2007, 06:15:18 am »
yeah, um, sorry. that was basically me getting into the mode of a childhood book.

I am, to return to the main subject, starting to get worried about moving in in about a month. Most of my stuff was in storage and will be dropped off at my building the day after I get in... but the stuff here will be difficult to get back. The two possible scenarios are basically:
1. I bring way too many bags on the plane, all of them filled with clothes, and have major issues getting them from the airport to school (metro? cab?)
2. my parents mail them to me, and i totter all over the place carrying big ol' boxen.

I am not sure which is more/less attractive.

the whole moving-in thing will be fun, though. new room to organize, new books to buy. I have had, at this point, three dreams about moving in-- two about getting roommates other than the guys I am supposed to live with, and one where my room was only slightly larger than my tiny cot-bed.
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Re: Moving Tips?
« Reply #54 on: July 28, 2007, 05:08:57 pm »
Quote from: smick on July 28, 2007, 03:57:49 am
inev, if you're doing fic, can I request Flitwick/McGonagall?

Disturbing:

http://www.dracoandginny.com/
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Re: Moving Tips?
« Reply #55 on: July 28, 2007, 08:31:17 pm »
Deviantart seems to be full of pictures of Harry Potter characters turned into girls by spells and having sex with unchanged male characters.

I think if we could only get the aliens to judge us by what's on Deviantart, they would let us stick around, if only to see what sort of fucked up way we can manifest repressed sexuality next.
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Re: Moving Tips?
« Reply #56 on: July 28, 2007, 11:24:57 pm »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on July 28, 2007, 08:31:17 pm
Deviantart seems to be full of pictures of Harry Potter characters turned into girls by spells and having sex with unchanged male characters.

I think I saw the Harry-Potter-changed-into-a-girl on the finals of the Jeopardy! Summer Teen Tournament. Her name was Meryl or something like that, but she looked like a girl Harry Potter. My wife hated her because she told stories during the chat segment that were funny to her and no one else. I was rooting for her because she risked it all at the end of the first day and went into Day 2 of the finals with $0, against the other two's tens of thousands. That and the other two dorks annoyed the hell out of me.

She ended up winning by one dollar.
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Re: Moving Tips?
« Reply #57 on: July 28, 2007, 11:27:02 pm »
Quote from: Golfhaus on July 28, 2007, 11:24:57 pm
I think I saw the Harry-Potter-changed-into-a-girl on the finals of the Jeopardy! Summer Teen Tournament. Her name was Meryl or something like that, but she looked like a girl Harry Potter. My wife hated her because she told stories during the chat segment that were funny to her and no one else. I was rooting for her because she risked it all at the end of the first day and went into Day 2 of the finals with $0, against the other two's tens of thousands. That and the other two dorks annoyed the hell out of me.

She ended up winning by one dollar.

That's a heartwarming story and all, but was she hot?
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Re: Moving Tips?
« Reply #58 on: July 30, 2007, 03:44:50 am »
Nabu always gets down to brass tacks.
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Re: Moving Tips?
« Reply #59 on: July 31, 2007, 12:05:03 am »
Quote from: Nabubrush drinks (a lot) on July 28, 2007, 11:27:02 pm
That's a heartwarming story and all, but was she hot?

Interestingly, yes. I dare say she was a... hot nerd girl. And she was 18, which makes it okay for me to say that.
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