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October 28, 2004
Seasons change
Not to put the cart before the horse, but I just realized today that we may be closer to closing on the co-op than I thought. We've been approved for a loan and should be getting the commitment letter shortly which, along with our board application, will get sent to the building management company who will forward the material to the co-op board who will contact us to set up an interview. For months, I've been telling people, we're still in waiting mode, that there are still many steps involved, and we're now actually only a month and a half away from the date we agreed to close by and Adam pointed out to me tonight that it could happen sooner than that. I hope the board approves us first of all, and, secondly, that we do close sooner than the middle of December since we're going on our annual holiday migration to L.A. on December 22nd.
At the same time, I'm apprehensive about an impending move--Adam and I have lived in our current apartment for nearly three and a half years and, save for the spate of water-related disasters this past year, it's served us well. We have a good-sized study room which I is hard for me to imagine not having, I have a large closet which is great for storing the numerous boxes of clothing I have, and we have a pretty expansive living room which is large enough to accomodate the numerous boxes of paper-based stuff Adam and I have. We also live in one of the best neighborhoods in Queens. It will be hard to leave. On top of this, we have so much stuff it is hard to fathom the amount of effort it will require to move. One task, in particular, that has been hanging over my head is transferring all the files I need to transfer from my old computer to this computer--even though Adam gave this computer to me back in March, I still haven't gone through all the files in my old computer so I can determine what needs or doesn't need to be transferred (this is the computer that got me through graduate school, a stint doing research for and writing a guidebook, a prolonged job search involving many cover letters and resumes, a zine issue, and the belief that I would publish another issue so there's a lot of files to go through). In some ways, I can't wait--this is the thing we've been waiting for since the beginning of the summer. In other ways, I'm having difficulty adjusting to the idea of having to say goodbye to the place we've called home for the past three plus years, the longest period of time I've lived in one place since high school or perhaps even longer.
Posted by Jennifer at October 28, 2004 09:08 PM