so yesterday i enlisted the aid of the art department to get my old furniture down to the dumpster so the thrift store and the garbagemen could have at it...

i had this entertainment center i'd inherited from chris, and it's basically two bookshelfy type deals with some shelves connecting them in the middle. some of the shelves come right out, some of them are sorta tacked in there with nails from behind. so we take out the takeout shelves, and leave in the others. eric's got one end, i've got the other, and it goes down the stairs fine. kathy's bringin up the rear with some other stuff, and as cross the parking lot, pieces of the thing just start falling off. by the time we reach the dumpster we're literally carrying planks of wood, leaving a trail of nails and other wood pieces in our wake.

then came the big fluffy couch's demise. it made it down the hallway fine, made it down the stairs fine, and then successfully got stuck between the bottom of the stairs and the back door to my building. i hear a kid buzz at the front door and of course the friend he's visiting lives in the apartment who's door we're blocking. so this kid comes down the hall, and the kid who lives there opens his door, and they're both just kind of staring at this huge hunk of couch that we're trying to maneuver out of the way. 15 minutes and fifty tries later we ask them if we can use the first couple of feet of their apartment. a three-point-turn the dmv would've been proud of was executed, and the couch was free to live out the rest of it's hours in the outdoors. the smelly smelly outdoors.

everything else made it downstairs in a fairly uneventful manner... adventures in moving, that's what this all adds up to. stay tuned for the direct to video release starring ron perlman next week!