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I'm glad I hadn't gone to sleep yet when the storm hit, although I was in bed and had just given up on reading. The street light right outside my bedroom window went out twice. The second time, my stereo and my alarm clock also went out. Everything else important is plugged into a surge suppressor and seems to be fine.

Everybody whose e-mail addresses I have will be getting this by e-mail, too, but for those of you who won't:

Housewarming!

Saturday, August 6, noon-8PM
67 Centre St #1, Roxbury

Anybody who needs directions, etc. should e-mail me at mkdchenes (at) yahoo.com. (If you don't need directions, RSVPs will be appreciated too.)

in which I act like an idiot

It is now 5:00. Since noon I've been to Arlington and back and to the grocery store and back. Since I got up this morning I have ingested one cup of coffee and most of a liter of seltzer. Not the smartest thing I've ever done, but I wasn't hungry, so I didn't eat. It's catching up with me now, though; the groceries weighed quite a lot (I bought a lot of liquid) and even though they were in a cart, I still had to haul the cart home uphill.

However, I accomplished a fair bit today. In Arlington I bought supplies for the next stitching project (which I shouldn't have done, but which made me feel better). I took the train to Park Street, went to Filene's and bought enough underwear to get me through to the weekend (shoulda done laundry last weekend, and I hate hand washing), got a call from the temp agency, called my former boss at Tufts (didn't actually talk to him) to get him to call somebody who's checking references as a result of the interview I had last week, came home, went off to the grocery store and finally did the post-moving-in shopping I'd been putting off. That cost more than I wanted it to, but it was necessary. Now I can clean this place properly before Saturday and feed whoever shows up on Saturday.