House countdown

OK the house buying is getting close... the loan should officially close on Tuesday (8/11), which means that we'll "officially" own the house on that day (we signed the docs with the title company yesterday). Until then, though, we have the combination to the lock box so we can get into the house and start working on it now. I just got back from letting in a cleaning service to give us a cleaning quote... after talking about it, we decided that it's probably a better use of our time to pay someone to do a deep cleaning of the entire house so we can get right to the spackle and paint and installations.

I've been packing up all our junk in boxes which we'll start moving in once the house is clean. It's amazing - in such a small 1br apartment we do have a surprising amount of heavy things. Hopefully with the help of our friends and of C's dad, who is flying in tomorrow, the move won't be too painful.

Additionally, more of my books are arriving in the mail. All but one of my syllabi are posted as well... which means that it's just about time to start reading. We were instructed to finish our first week's assignments early because Law Review will give us our first assignment on the 16th which will be due a week after that. Good thing I enjoy editing and writing!

I'll write again this weekend and keep my reader(s? hi mom!) posted about the house as things develop. 

K