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Jan. 18th, 2019 06:15 amPlanning to move just over a week after Arisia is not ideal timing. At this point I have two weekends to pack. This weekend is Arisia so it doesn't count. Therefore, I had resolved that before going to Arisia, I would have all non-essentials packed. I can't pack everything too far ahead of time. We have an ongoing need to eat, sleep, shower, wear clothes, deal with financial paperwork, etc., so I can't pack most of the dishes, kitchen gear, food, kitchen appliances, bedding, bathroom products, clothing, and files. But I should be able to pack books, games, toys, decorative items, art, projects, and a surprising amount of random clutter. Most of this is packed. But the tapestry and some art are still on the walls, I haven't taken apart the huge shelving unit or Vic's bedframe, and there's still some unprocessed clutter lurking in the corners. (It breeds like feral cats, I swear.) And, oh hey, look at that, I have to work and Arisia starts today.
With all this going on it was perhaps a bad year to decide to get back into Arisia volunteering (and to try to turn Vic on to con volunteering.) Yesterday we tried to volunteer. We went to the BPP with the intent of being helpful. But Vic has been really stressed and dealt poorly with chaos that was Arisia set-up last night. Rather than "hey willing hands, do this task" it was "well, before this can happen, that has to happen... and that's not happening because the elevator at storage died... so we are standing around trying to figure out what to do?" Rickland tried to recruit us to go to storage and join the bucket brigade but we were just not having it. We were just done. If I had known, if we had gotten in our car and gone straight to storage, we could've helped out there. But I didn't want to drag a frazzled teenager to Somerville and have them fall apart (again) there and then be dependent on Rickland's transportation logistics to leave. I thought, I could just go home and take apart my bookshelf instead.
Fortunately, according to Twitter, Arisia got all the stuff it needs for this year's con out of storage by 19:55 last night, without us.
I have cleaned off my bookshelf but I haven't taken it apart yet. I am going to let Vic skip school today and help me take apart furniture. Their attendance has been nearly perfect so far this year so they've earned a day off. It's too much for Vic to deal with the ongoing chaos of packing and moving AND Arisia AND school today. This means that I miss work today but work does not need me.
With all this going on it was perhaps a bad year to decide to get back into Arisia volunteering (and to try to turn Vic on to con volunteering.) Yesterday we tried to volunteer. We went to the BPP with the intent of being helpful. But Vic has been really stressed and dealt poorly with chaos that was Arisia set-up last night. Rather than "hey willing hands, do this task" it was "well, before this can happen, that has to happen... and that's not happening because the elevator at storage died... so we are standing around trying to figure out what to do?" Rickland tried to recruit us to go to storage and join the bucket brigade but we were just not having it. We were just done. If I had known, if we had gotten in our car and gone straight to storage, we could've helped out there. But I didn't want to drag a frazzled teenager to Somerville and have them fall apart (again) there and then be dependent on Rickland's transportation logistics to leave. I thought, I could just go home and take apart my bookshelf instead.
Fortunately, according to Twitter, Arisia got all the stuff it needs for this year's con out of storage by 19:55 last night, without us.
I have cleaned off my bookshelf but I haven't taken it apart yet. I am going to let Vic skip school today and help me take apart furniture. Their attendance has been nearly perfect so far this year so they've earned a day off. It's too much for Vic to deal with the ongoing chaos of packing and moving AND Arisia AND school today. This means that I miss work today but work does not need me.
