Exhausted..

Moving details are exhausting!

I know I'm tired when the thought of not having brought my lunch today brought me to the verge of tears!

I've been taking down all the art work and bulletin boards in the halls, hauling boxes of questionable content up to be sorted through, cleaning out book cases, cabinets, and pulping confidential coursework and files. I have set a student to work erasing video and cassette tapes and 3 inch floppies with an electromagnet.

That's on top of trying to keep everyone moving forward with packing, managing the phone and data port additions and moves, processing licensure requests, ordering furniture and other necessary equipment, determining what moves and what goes, finding ways to make some stuff "disappear", and doing my regular job.

I still have to meet with the key shop but since the contractor has the wrong type of lock in all the doors I'm not sure that will be helpful. The project manager in Waldo hasn't followed through on the additional walls he promised us which is going to be problematic. The moving company needs extra time to move because they are going to have to haul everything up 4 flights of stairs (I'm sooooo glad that isn't me!). I moved the date up by two days but we may end up working the weekend too.

The project manager for Education Hall seems to think that we will be moving back in in Sept of 2011. But, this is the same person who thought we could move 56 rooms in 3 days, up four flights of stairs. Applying the same margin of error, we'll move back in in about 24 months as I originally calculated.

The departmental faculty have not chosen which of the 300+ work samples are going with us- I said we'd take 30. My student and I pulled apart about 3 dozen old ones today and it took us 1.5 hours. I can't imagine the amount of hours it's going to take to do 240+ of them. So...they'd better get a move on or we're just going to get started without them.

I'm trying to figure out how to move 20 rooms of storage into 3. And how to fit all of my desk stuff onto a much smaller desk with fewer drawers.

Add to that we have a rebellion going on about a merger that is resulting in much complaining and backbiting. One of the people I love working with is threatening to quit if she has to continue working with another, who is rather a bully. And of course I can't do anything right and everyone has to yell at me because I'm moving too fast and they aren't ready for things to be taken down or thrown away or, or, or...

I'm so overwhelmed it's not funny.

And Egils is coming....

I'm sewing frantically for Egils so that I'm not naked for the event. My yo-yo weight means that clothes don't fit from one year to the next, sometimes down, more often up. I'm just making tunics but I'm trying to use proper construction techniques and so I've had to work a bit on my pattern. So far I've gotten two woolen tunics sewn but I still need to hem and finish them. I have one linen tunic done and two others cut out. I hope to have one more done on top of those if I can. I still have at least two linen tunics that fit and one woolen one that is marginal. I may also have a wool cotehardie loaned to me, provided it fits. Watch...this will be a hot Egils instead of a rainy one. You never know this time of year what weather you'll get. Since I'll be running for Ceridwen, I wanted easy to wear clothes and my back and hips can't handle a lot of extra weight on them while on uneven ground especially. (It just occurred to me that I don't have any shoes to wear. Argh! I'll have to figure something out.) I'd love to get some gothic fitted gowns done, although I'm not sure I want my current figure that well displayed. I need help with fitting but I'll just need to wait for the next Robin Netherton workshop, I think.

I'm pretty proud of my use of scraps this time around. I did buy some linen but the wool tunics were made from pieces I had already. One had gotten pretty severely moth eaten so I had to work around the holes and the other I had used to make a modern dress and I was using the left overs. I did start making an over tunic by hand with scraps but I'll need to adjust it based on my experiences with the other tunics. It's also made with scraps but I may or may not get it done since it's got slit sides and is optional.

The additional rush of sewing doesn't help my stress level but it will be done soon and I'll enjoy the event.