As promised...

pictures of the moving extravaganza, for your viewing pleasure. I met the carpet cleaning guys this morning at 7:30am (requiring catching the 6:40am bus...eek!). I do the walk through with the property management people today at 1pm, and then I will be officially done with the old apartment.

To recap some of the previous adventures in the old apartment - guys next door fighting and punching holes in the wall at 3am, waterfall wall from the leaking roof, drunk college kids passing by from midnight to 3am most Thursdays-Saturdays, squirrel in ceiling, bat in apartment hanging from ceiling. Ah yes, college life at its finest....

the old apartment in a state of packing chaos

how did someone without much stuff end up with so much stuff? (still old apartment)
Callie enjoys the screen door at the old apartment as she supervises the cleaning process.

If you're a cat, you don't need furniture to find a place to hide. (old apartment)

The new kitchen, in the unpacking process.

The future office, filled with practically everything I own.

Chaos in the new bedroom.

Ah, that new living room look of emptiness....

The very last load of stuff from the old apartment (Thanks, Virginia)

Of course, it's much easier to hide if you've got a closet, and a bunch of unpacked stuff...

The new bathroom (with its light above the sink and a light switch on the wall, not the ceiling)

Moving is really hard work

The new office (so far)

What's left to unpack in the new office

The living room, a little less empty

If things do happen in threes, then could this possibly be the next guest of my wildlife refuge?

And the newest member of the household is...

a bat. Yes, I woke up this morning, groggily from being up late fighting with APA format in a paper. I noticed something brown on the ceiling, seeming to hang there. I put on my glasses, and it was a bat. I'd thought I'd heard something in the ceiling early this morning. I thought it was my friend the squirrel. Perhaps it was our new friend the bat.

So I put Callie in the bathroom because it's the only room with a separate door. I opened the front door, and I tried to sort of push the bat out the door. It flew around the room and then behind the chair near the front door I kind of gently touched it with the broom to get it to move ouside. I had to do that a few times but it flattened itself under the door and then it flew off into the fog.

The thing that I could kick myself for is that I now have a digital camera, purchased yesterday. The battery had even finished charging, but did I think of that? No, of course not. Aak.

Bat gone. Callie liberated. I have no water, though. Apparently when I had no hot water, they'd had to replace the hot water heater. Of course, something has gone wrong with it. This is Indiana. So, I'm off to find coffee to drink in a place that has a bathroom in which I can wash my face. I already brushed my teeth without rinsing, so I'm minty fresh. Mwah mwah.