As of about an hour ago, there's nothing left in my apartment that belongs to me, except for a little bit of food in the refrigerator and freezer (because my new refrigerator won't be arriving for another week or so). Yay!<\/p>\n
Tomorrow (Friday) morning at 8:00, I'll go over there and let a cleaning person in, to do a thorough move-out cleaning. I'll also pick up the excess (flattened) cardboard boxes from my parking space—Kam's parents moved not long ago, and they gave me about eighty boxes, of which I used about fifty. Anyone who lives around here want a whole bunch of flattened cardboard boxes, suitable for moving?<\/p>\n
(I forget if I've noted that a substantial percentage of my friends out here have moved in the past six months. Well, okay, maybe not literally a substantial percentage. But at least nine couples and one person-who-doesn't-live-with-SO I can think of off the top of my head. Ah, autumn, when a young Californian's fancy turns to thoughts of shorter commutes and\/or owning a house.)<\/p>\n
(And that, of course, sent me off on a wild Google chase to track down the origin of the original phrase, which I used to see quoted all the time but not so much any more. I got slightly sidetracked by a valentines-to-*NSYNC<\/a> page, but eventually perseverance furthered and I found the quote<\/a> in Bartleby (where I would've looked first if I hadn't been trying to find my bookmark for Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable<\/cite>):<\/p>\n In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove;<\/p>\n In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.<\/p>\n\n