My lease ends on August 8
August 4th, 2006
The lease on my current place in Westwood ends on August 8, and I’m working in Santa Monica until August 18, after which I’m moving up to Berkeley. Sounds great, except for some slight problems:
- I have a lot of stuff. My closet is packed, and I have the usual desk, bed and bookshelves, along with a load of books, a bunch of kitchen stuff (some unopened after two years) and computers galore. Since I work during the week and have a company picnic on Sunday, I’m aiming to move the bulk of my goods tomorrow.
- I have to move home between August 8 and whenever I move up to Berkeley. That means I’ll have to endure a 30 mile, 1 hour (in light traffic) commute through downtown and mid-city LA. Obviously I’m going to try to avoid this, which means getting to work by 7AM and leaving past 8PM (which isn’t that bad considering it is actually my 10:30 to midnight schedule shifted a couple hours).
- I don’t have a place in Berkeley. The lack of a place hinders my ability to move into a place in Berkeley. The current plan is to rent a public storage locker and dump my stuff there while I either a) live in a hotel room or b) bum on a couch while looking for a place. Oddly enough, as my move date gets nearer, I get less worried about not having a place.