andrea

well, i am pausing in between moving batches of stuff out. i am following a rule today: whatever i move out, it has to be 'something substantial.' i cannot just move a couple cardboard boxes with small stuff in them. it has to be things like big, awkward pieces of furniture.

i don't have a lot of big pieces of furniture. i have been anti-furniture for many years. if it's big, heavy, made of wood, antique, expensive, cannot be disassembled quickly and easily, and i need somebody else to help me lift it and carry it up and down the steps, then i won't have it in my house. i like: folding card tables and chairs, and plastic shelves that can be assembled and disassembled without any screws or tools, for instance. i have had a 'nomadic' theme to my furniture.

one exception: my dishwasher. i had to move this a few years ago, and i could not figure out any way to do it alone. i tried to buy a dolly, but they didn't have any with very large, thick wheels that could go down my steps. the wheels have to be far up off the ground so that it won't scrape all the steps. i ended up just getting someone to help me. that was eric - that was when i was evicted, and i moved in with him.

this is a good day to move. it's sunny and no sign of rain. past experiences: usually it pours buckets of rain on the day when i move. i remember going back and forth to shepherd college every year, with my pickup truck and a tarp over the back, and pouring rain, and an eight hour drive (or maybe six or seven hours, i forget now, i haven't driven that road in years).

today i moved my bookshelf. it is a cheap bookshelf from wal-mart. it's made of wood, but it's lightweight, and it can be partially dismantled without tools. i stuck it in the back of my trunk, with the trunk open, and most of the bookshelf hanging out, and drove very slowly.

i wanted to buy a car with a hatchback, but couldn't find one. i compromised and bought a sedan, with some hesitation. with a sedan trunk i can't fit things in the back the way i would like to, which makes it impossible to carry some of the things like the dishwasher. eric and i put that in his car, which did have a hatchback at the time. it was a ford aspire, if i recall.

i am not being very efficient, but it's getting done. i am making small trips. my storage place is pretty close by. i take breaks in between and i'm not stressing out too much.

i don't like asking for help. i was asking myself why (or 'they' were asking me, or 'we' were having a discussion - technically, i'm never alone anymore during my mental conversations) i don't want to ask people for help. i was using the three instincts as a focus for how to frame my answers. i asked questions having to do with self-preservation, sexual, and social instincts as described on the web pages i've been reading. i don't really feel like writing it all down right now though.

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as usual, i didn't get the joke, and 'somebody' had to explain it to me. andrea jenny = androgyny. i'm guessing that this is a joke and not a real person. however, they also were believing that the guy i'm seeing, peter, isn't a real person, but he is. he does have an unfortunate last name, and yes, it does sound like a joke having to do with penises, but he is actually a real person. supposedly, it's emery who doesn't know for sure whether everything i'm saying is 'real or fiction.' it is all real, although some of it is theoretical, when i don't understand something and have to make up my own explanations.

they are also saying that martin doesn't know what retmeishka is, even though i emailed him. actually, i don't know what retmeishka is either. it's glossolalia, and it doesn't have a specific meaning yet. glossolalia is protolanguage, baby talk, musical language, something that enables you to practice the sounds of a language before knowing any words. it helps people to learn. 'it has a purpose' (the voices are always saying 'such and such has a purpose'), and it isn't mystical or divine or anything special, the way some religions are portraying it. it is just a natural thing that the brain can do, nothing more miraculous than baby talk. baby talk is 'miraculous,' but not in a supernatural way.

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harry potter midnight show is sold out. i'll go tomorrow then, or whenever i can. i wasn't going to buy midnight tickets several days in advance.

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maybe soon i'll start checking my typographical errors again. i've been leaving them in for several days now. there's an unclosed quote somewhere way back that's keeping all my blog posts from compiling. :)