Confederacy of a Dunce - Moving, weak

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

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This week almost all of my working time has been eaten up by a move into a new research centre. In theory, the move was supposed to be practically instantaneous: office contents transported from A to B in the blink of an eye, and new offices instantly equipped with furniture, computers, appropriate contents, and busy-as-a-beaver research people. Of course, in practice nothing like this happened. It took all day yesterday to get the office contents moved into the new centre (as many as 5 floors up narrow stairs), and today all the offices are still loaded with moving crates. The furniture didn't arrive right away (and plenty of minor things like filing cabinets and drawer units are yet to be ordered), and there's no point in getting computers set up if there are no desks to put them on. Shelves were also meant to be installed, and that will apparently happen later today. I will retain my current office, but am meant to spend a sizable amount of my time in the new space (a not-so-large office shared with 4, or 5, or 6 other people by the time all the newly hired people have arrived). I figured it would take a couple of days until I could actually do some work in the new office; now I've revised that estimate to "this time next week".

It is a really nice building. While the psychology department is in a 1960s concrete abomination; the new research centre is a nice Georgian house that has been (largely) renovated for the purpose. Its location is right in the heart of Gordon Square, where the Bloomsbury Group began in the early 1900s (more about them later). Some comparative photos will be forthcoming (once we've all moved in, and settled a bit).

Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:15:29 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)