progress = yay

Today, I have:

• added to the list of things I need to buy (with, it must be said, money that I don't really necessarily have; tomorrow's list includes Call The Agency Again And Get A Bill-Paying Gig, Stat)
  
• unpacked what I think is a little less than half the books (enough to fill one bookshelf, which is to say two bookshelves stacked on top of each other; I am pleased, in my way, to note that I have more boxes of books than boxes of anything else)
  
• unpacked most of the kitchen boxes and loaded up the dishwasher, which is now running -- the detergent cup cover thingie didn't seem to want to lock in what I thought was the correct position, so we'll see if the thing works properly, and if not, I'll have the people downstairs come and fix it.  No problem.

There's really no good reason I can't proceed to a) vacuuming the cushions and putting the couch and chair together, and b) going out and getting some of the things on my list.  And yet I do not do this.  Hmm.

hee, other things

I forget why it occurred to me to double check, but it turns out that the Director's birthday is the same as International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

I anticipate that being very funny.  :-)

i'd better make a list.

Things I have to do tomorrow (i.e. Monday):

• return to DMV and get VA driver's license
  
• call agency and light a fire under the people who are supposed to be finding me bill-paying work
  
• arrange to have cable and internet brought into my home (whether this internet is cable or DSL is more or less immaterial to me)
  
• go to bank and file signature; also put money in account, which exists but with balance at the moment of $0
  
• continue unpacking
  
• touch up some paint spots that will otherwise always bug me
  
• buy a phone
  
• buy a bed (poss.)

Lest I look back at this and feel that I've achieved nothing today, I also include a list of what I've already done:

• unpacked approx. one third of all boxes, including (as I said before) all books it is currently possible to shelve and almost all kitchen stuff (dishes are put away; pots and pans and whatnot need to be cleaned first, and the on-deck circle on the counter is full, so some stuff remains boxed)
  
• bought groceries more extensive than just detergents; this did, however, include Formula 409, with which I scrubbed the living crap out of the kitchen trash can so that it no longer revolts me to touch it long enough to throw something away.  Huzzah.  (Also includes some plastic-steel-wool scrubby things I intend to send to my mother, who has a hard time finding them but prefers them to kitchen sponges.)
  
• vacuumed cushions and reassembled upholstered furniture.