We moved again, kind of

I've figured out the secret to moving. Don't do it yourself. Don't hire movers. Don't ask just anybody you know to help you. No, the secret to moving is this: Ask a few MBA/MS (or as I think MIT calls it, SM?) students who are right in the middle of their finals week to help you. I promise you, you'll be moved out of one place and in to the next so fast you won't even know what just happened.

We started moving stuff around 3:15 into the 14 foot UHAUL we rented and, I kid you not, around 5:30 we were finished moving everything into the studio apartment and discussing where we should eat dinner. Chuck said when he went in to return the truck the guy working said "Whoa! You're back already!?" I think we may have just made moving history. I wish every move could be just like this one.

Chuck's awesome summer LGO team members were our moving helpers. There were 5 of them and then the 2 of us. And they were the best movers, not just because they are engineers and business people who are naturally just good at things like organizing a truck full of stuff and being efficient, but they are in the midst of finals week. They are so busy they're barely sleeping right now.  I'm sure they all had a million other things to be doing other than helping us move, so when helping, they wanted to get it done as fast as possible. It was perfect!

This has me thinking now about starting a moving business that only employs very busy grad students as movers and promises highly efficient and fast moves to our customers. Also, the grad students are paid in free pizza and beer instead of money. Hmmm... I think I'm on to something here....

So we have to be out of Eastgate by 9 am this Friday, but we can't get into our new apartment until we get back from Kentucky.  Luckily for us, there is an empty studio apartment in the same building as our new apartment where we moved all of the stuff yesterday to store it while we're gone. So we are sleeping at Eastgate on an air mattress until Friday, while all of our things sit in "storage" until we get back.  Here is what we currently have in our apartment with us: air mattress, pillows, a fan, two lamps, suitcases already packed and ready to go home, bathroom essentials and the ingredients for chocolate milk.  Oh and some crackers. Friday cannot come soon enough.

I wanted to post some pictures of the moving process but it happened so fast I didn't even have time to snap any pictures. But here are a couple I took before the move.

Our progress as of Sunday afternoon. The TV was the last thing we packed. :)

After I had already packed the silverware all away at the bottom of a large box and taped it all up, we found this lone fork still in the sink. I was not about to unpack the box the rest of the silverware was in, so this fork ended up in a random box and will be a fun surprise when we're unpacking in a couple of weeks.

Here's a video taken by Yannai, one of Chuck's teammates and one of our movers, while we were driving the truck from Eastgate to the new place. Two of the bikers you see on the road were two other teammates/movers. I'm pretty sure the guys on bike got to the apartment before we did with the truck. Thanks for the video, Yannai!