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Jun. 25th, 2015 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedantherThe other thing that's been keeping me busy this month is that I moved house.
I didn't say anything about it before it happened because until I'd actually moved it didn't feel quite real, the way it sometimes goes when you're making a permanent change to a six-years-fixed part of your life; there was a part of me convinced that something was going to happen at the last minute and it would all be called off. And then of course once I had moved, there was the saga of Not Having Any Internet.
Come to think of it, having no internet may have helped a bit, in that a working internet would have been a serious temptation to distraction from packing and unpacking. Not that I'm inclined to be any more forgiving to the telephone company and the internet company on that account.
The new house is quite a bit nicer, and in particular less of an agglomeration of things needing replacing, than the old house, which is one of the reasons for the move. The other is that the old neighbourhood was turning into somewhere I didn't feel safe. I've had several people tell me that this neighbourhood, or at least some neighbourhood in this general vicinity, has a bad reputation, but frankly it would have to pull out a few stops to get near the old neighbourhood, and so far at least it doesn't seem inclined to make that effort.
I didn't say anything about it before it happened because until I'd actually moved it didn't feel quite real, the way it sometimes goes when you're making a permanent change to a six-years-fixed part of your life; there was a part of me convinced that something was going to happen at the last minute and it would all be called off. And then of course once I had moved, there was the saga of Not Having Any Internet.
Come to think of it, having no internet may have helped a bit, in that a working internet would have been a serious temptation to distraction from packing and unpacking. Not that I'm inclined to be any more forgiving to the telephone company and the internet company on that account.
The new house is quite a bit nicer, and in particular less of an agglomeration of things needing replacing, than the old house, which is one of the reasons for the move. The other is that the old neighbourhood was turning into somewhere I didn't feel safe. I've had several people tell me that this neighbourhood, or at least some neighbourhood in this general vicinity, has a bad reputation, but frankly it would have to pull out a few stops to get near the old neighbourhood, and so far at least it doesn't seem inclined to make that effort.
