while in the computer lab working on some operating system work, it was brought to my attention (by a fellow classmate) that someone had placed a large number of terry pratchett novels on the "free books" rack. After a mad dash up a flight of stairs, i now have around 20ish new books to read.

Here is my conundrum. I am moving in less than a month and will have to pack all this stuff i keep bringing home from various places. Ugh. I am my own worst enemy.

On the other hand that sounds like months of entertainment.

The last time I moved the books were a big issue, but also not something I was willing to leave behind.

In Response to danav (#34411):

yeah, i have a bookshelf double stacked and a closet that has its shelves all full and some still in boxes from my move back from purdue. and i can't get rid of any because i love them all.

i have started getting rid of magazines and newspapers. i'm bringing in about a year of The Onion to school monday to give away.

someone had placed a large number of terry pratchett novels on the "free books" rack.

I'll miss the Rex Stout novels even more, but it all had to go.

If two of you weren't moving, I'd say that we should have a separate Indiana forum. Do your lives overlap in reality as much as they do on the forums?

(And no saying that the forums are reality--that's just sad.)

In Response to Llamarama (#34421):

Among the four of us whose lives are currently intersecting more or less, two are moving and the other one is graduating. So I won't be seeing much of any of them in a couple of weeks.

In Response to danav (#34423):

I'll believe that I've graduated when I actually hold that piece of paper in my hands. I still have to survive finals week. My continuance at our fine institution hinges on:

(a) passing all my classes
(b) getting a job

Otherwise, I plan on coming back for grad school after a few years.

I keep forgetting to tell you that I still have your linear algebra book. We used a different book so I wasn't able to use it this semester. I'm sure you won't want to leave Indiana without it.

In Response to mkinyon (#34414):

oh(i suspected it was you)... you gave us christmas in may! i DEFINITELY owe you several beers!

i haven't been much of a detective reader, but i'll have to give them a try.

So, what job are you moving for? i'm curious and sad you're leaving here. i have heard so many things.

In Response to Llamarama (#34421):

Do your lives overlap in reality as much as they do on the forums?

Well, sort of. Danav's office is just around the corner from mine. I see AsphaltBuffet in the lab on the second floor frequently. IceCreamAddict is taking my linear algebra class. Outside of the work /school environment, however, no, we don't really see each other.

I know we've probably been annoying many of the rest of you with Tales of Indiana University South Bend. But as danav said, that all comes to an end soon.

In Response to AsphaltBuffet (#34427):

you gave us christmas in may!

More to come, though probably not to your taste.

So, what job are you moving for?

The other Dr. Kinyon and I got offers from the University of Denver, she in the Writing Program, and I in the Department of Mathematics.

i have heard so many things.

Believe only the obvious contradictions.

Moving is a bitch. We just finished - our first official day in the new apartment is today - but the worst part of the entire situation was moving the books. Oh, the books.

Keeping in mind that the last time I got rid of books, it was by way of leaving them at my parents' house when I moved out - and that consisted exclusively of children's and YA work (a fairly complete Bobbsey Twins collection among them). Even so, I couldn't get rid of a few of my classics, so my Patricia C. Wrede novels are still about; in fact, two of them are on the shelf directly to my right.

By the time I move next, I estimate that at least 75% of the process will be taken up in moving books or book-related paraphernalia, and not because I plan to significantly prune any other part of my life. This is not only natural, but the only possible way to live.

In Response to mkinyon (#34429):

More to come, though probably not to your taste.

You'd be surprised. i was pretty happy about the feynman book.

interestingly, a good friend of mine in computer science that is graduating this spring is moving to colorado springs.

In Response to mkinyon (#34428):

Hooray! You survived pneumonia. I knew you'd bounce back. Now you just need to survive a life-transplant. Maybe it will be weird going from ultra flat land to ultra mountainous land, but perhaps the people will be similar in most ways.

And there's always the question which comes up each time this happens: what to do with all the little canisters of leftover Albuterol? They're explosive, right?

And despite what those fork-tongued anesthesiologists claim, it is possible to remember some of the bronchoscopy experience. My suggestion for dealing with that is to use some sort of relativist thinking. Like when you're stuck in line at the supermarket behind somebody really irritating and slow, you can just remind yourself: "oh, right, this isn't nearly as annoying as all those times when fiber optics and saline lavage were shoved into the bottom of my lungs! There. All better."

Congratulations on the career moves. I hope the physical moves are easy and entertaining. Oh, and to AsphaltBuffet: i hope your new job brings you happiness and material comfort.

In Response to Teledildonix (#34433):

i hope so too... so far it has brought me debt and stress.

Oh man, the Pratchett books are addicting. A girl loaned me The Last Continent during my freshman year of undergrad. I think I now own every single Discworld book he's written. Plus Good Omens.

Stikkit yer trakkans!

In Response to Teledildonix (#34433):

fiber optics and saline lavage were shoved into the bottom of my lungs!

that's not a medical procedure! Now, an ERCP, that's a medical procedure.

Plus, this one time on Discovery Channel, I saw a caesarean section, and when they flopped the uterus out onto the chest like that, while the perfectly awake mother on the other side was looking vaguely puzzled...

It was still much less disturbing than the Great Chefs series that did the frog's leg cream turine.... It was grey and slimy from start to finish... uuuuuuugggghhhhhh.

In Response to IceCreamAddict (#34426):

yeah, the new dehli edition is VERY popular.

whenever... i need to get some books back to you too. and that video card.

In Response to Teledildonix (#34433):

Many thanks. Yep, I'm doing fine. Actually, I didn't have any of those nasty things shoved into my lungs. I was just given a week's worth of Biaxin, the currently fashionable antibiotic. It took care of it beautifully.

To celebrate feeling better, naturally I did something stupid: I threw my back out lifting a box of books. D'oh!

In Response to AsphaltBuffet (#34441):

If there were only some other, more private mechanism for communicating electronically with one another . . .

In Response to deerboy (#34445):

Ooo! Ooo!! Let's pretend it's teledildonics! We're gonna need lampshades... and Crisco! [goats.com]

In Response to deerboy (#34445):

If there were only some other, more private mechanism for communicating electronically with one another . . .

especially one with fewer assbites...

In Response to AsphaltBuffet (#34447):

I think you meant:

"In Response to Teledildonix"

In Response to deerboy (#34448):

I think you meant:

"In Response to Teledildonix"

no, that's "ass bites" not "assbites"

In Response to AsphaltBuffet (#34449):

mod:-1 anti-semant!

In Response to AsphaltBuffet (#34449):

Pfffth. I can think of many better options. But to each their own, if that's what you like.