science needs boxes!
Sep. 2nd, 2003 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chhotiiLast I heard, the date of the lab moving was still up in the air, but it may be October 1. I'll be out of the country on October 1. So I should pack ahead of time, right? Well. Last I heard, Harvard and BIDMC were still bickering about who pays for our moving costs, so we haven't even bought cardboard boxes yet.
Packing and moving can happen at the last minute. They most probably will. The wrecking ball will show up and folks will go oh my god we have to move RIGHT NOW and they will stuff everything into boxes haphazardly. If this happens while I am away, I will not have any control over where stuff winds up, and will not be able to find things, making my life irksome after the move. Also, if it's last-minute, I lose the opportunity to use moving as a chance to filter and sort stuff. So I'd like to get packing before this game of chicken with the moving logistics ends.
But I'm dead-set against spending my own money for things the lab should pay for. They have already gotten lots of my time for free, I should not be subsidizing their lameness. But I would be willing to, oh, drive my yummy car to Somerville and see friends and, by the way, pick up some boxes. So I'm on the look-out for free box offers (and just after September 1 is not a bad time for this quest.)
Called ceo to ask about boxes. Turns out, someone else called dibs. Damn, damn, damn.
Packing and moving can happen at the last minute. They most probably will. The wrecking ball will show up and folks will go oh my god we have to move RIGHT NOW and they will stuff everything into boxes haphazardly. If this happens while I am away, I will not have any control over where stuff winds up, and will not be able to find things, making my life irksome after the move. Also, if it's last-minute, I lose the opportunity to use moving as a chance to filter and sort stuff. So I'd like to get packing before this game of chicken with the moving logistics ends.
But I'm dead-set against spending my own money for things the lab should pay for. They have already gotten lots of my time for free, I should not be subsidizing their lameness. But I would be willing to, oh, drive my yummy car to Somerville and see friends and, by the way, pick up some boxes. So I'm on the look-out for free box offers (and just after September 1 is not a bad time for this quest.)
Called ceo to ask about boxes. Turns out, someone else called dibs. Damn, damn, damn.
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Date: 2003-09-02 04:54 pm (UTC)