Friday: Meet Beth’s coworkers at lunch; they are all nice. I take my girl out on a date! We pack up the truck with Nicole and Jennie’s help.

Saturday: pack up the remaining few things, including the bed, with Nicole’s help (and Chik-Fil-A chicken biscuits, thankyouthankyouNic). Hit the road at 9:50 am. Evil traffic at several choke spots between Charlotte and New York. Arrive around 1 am. Get keys from new roommates, leave truck under pigeon-clad bridge, take car to my place and crash.

Sunday: Beth pokes and prods me awake, which takes a couple of hours. Break our fast with blueberry pancakes and head over to the new place to unpack with Jeremy and Stacey’s swell help. Return Budget truck to Harlem, return for chicken and fries at a place I ate at three times a week when I lived in Queens. Unpacking, unpacking. Desk assembly (many pieces of fiberboard, one jen-you-us, one excellent helper).

Monday: another date!

Today: I work, she orients. Tonight: we create and code side by side.

p.s. I had my physical yesterday. Today, my doctor called to tell me that “my insides are beautiful.” 114/70 BP, 143 total cholesterol.