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After a week now, we are officially moved and semi-settled in our new place in Pasadena. The week was rather stressful. We had graduation for the art department, which was rather long, but enjoyable. The Art Department does graduation by having a professor speak about each student, and then the student speaking for a minute or two.

Marko spoke about me, and basically did an old-style roast, which was very funny. By far the least pretentious and funniest of the bunch. Mostly the professors were all “he references post-colonial theory with a dash of Nauman thrown on.” OK then.

After that, the family had drama, in which I scowled a lot. I have these two veins in my forehead that make a “V” whenever I’m pissed, so consider that fair warning. I’m still not speaking to some family right now from the weekend.

And then, movers arrive, take all our stuff, move it. I drive stuff to Fullerton, stay in a hotel. Then it gets dropped off to Pasadena.

Fast forward through unpacking, puting things together and buying crap and you end up with us now. We have about 10 boxes left (or less) and things are coming together nicely.

So to the present. I start my new job tomorrow and I’m very excited about it, with a bit of anxiety. I haven’t gone to a “job” job type situation in a long time, and while I miss it, I need to get my mind back in that mental space. I started it with a purge of a lot of conceptual theory books that I had when I thought I’d do a PhD. I know everything I need to know about post-structuralism, thank you very much.

I’m also going to clean out my files and such of extraneous school related things. As far as I’m concerned, for the moment, that part of my life is done. It is rather strange, as it seems like it was ten years ago that I went to classes, taught classes, etc. Now I live in a nicer place, have a slick job, a fancy car and am totally reverting back to my pre-school world-view. But this time I have a wife, a dog and a cat and my own place. Not to mention a better job.

I’m all for academic idealism, but not when it comes at the expense of enjoying myself. I like writing, teaching, etc but I’d rather moonlight than live in that space.

In cultural news: I guess everyone is talking about the TomKat engagement story. I really don’t care about that, I just wonder what sort of “vitamins” he is giving her to control her to his will. What a freak show.

More cultural stuff in tomorrows entry.