I'm just trying to get rid of a fair amount of my stuff as soon as I can, so I'm holding my own little fire sale as the snow is falling outside. Thankfully, I've managed to cut loose some dead weight -- I'm selling one of my friends my TV, and I found someone to buy my Sony amplifier. Now all I need to do is lose the dresser and nightstands, and one of the furniture buyers I talked to this morning said it shouldn't be too much of a problem to get them out by the end of the week. The one thing that I'm worried about now is hauling my music collection to California -- I took it down to Connecticut last night and it's rather heavy and I need to fold down the car's back seats to make it fit. But I really don't want to part with it, even though I probably should in order to make more fit in the car when I haul my stuff out to L.A.

Two more trips, and everything should be completely gone. I leave Sunday morning for my interview in L.A. for another position, then take the red-eye back to arrive here on Wednesday morning and drive straight back to Connecticut. As of Sunday, I will no longer live in Boston.

7 1/2 years in this town are drawing to a close for me. As much as I have said that I really am sick of Boston and rabidly want to leave, I'm feeling that this departure is kind of bittersweet.