Dammit

The above had nothing to do with the page it was on, like it was a hidden message or something. Maybe it is.

Anyway, when we went to Pittsburgh in May I packed my entire childhood into one trunk -- every book, photograph, paper, memento of the first 18 years of my life, and a few thereafter -- with the goal of driving out there in the summer to pick it up. Then the Board hired me full time, but the first 6 months you can't use any vacation, so we couldn't do the drive. Now my parents are getting ready to move and my father has announced that there's no room for the trunk where they're moving, "so tell me what you want to keep and I'll send it to you and we're dumping of the rest." Of course, the point was that I wanted to keep everything that was in the trunk. I also can't believe that they won't have a space 2'x2'x4' in that apartment. If I just knew one goddam person in Pittsburgh who I could ask to get the stuff and hold on to it for a few months, but I don't. And there's no way for me to get out there between now and the middle of November. So I'm pretty pissed about the whole thing.