15 January 08 - 18:26Time for a change of scenery

We've been busy moving house. I've had several people tell me that research has been done showing that moving house is one of the most stressful experiences a person can go through, and is right up there with getting divorced or having your spouse die. Personally, I reckon that's a load of rubbish - I mean, sure moving is stressful, but it's nowhere near that stressful (I had a seriously ill partner a few years ago, and the stress of that situation was orders of magnitude worse than even the most disruptive move of house I have ever experienced).
I have worked out that I have lived in 13 different houses for a significant length of time (3 months or more), and as I'm still not quite 33 years old, this amounts to an average stay of 2 and a half years per dwelling, and I guess that means I have moved a lot in my life. I know several people who have moved more frequently than that, though.

I have managed to catch a virus, though, so I have been catching up on a lot of sleep over the last couple of days. There are still loads of boxes to unpack, but I don't have the energy at the moment. Unfortunately, although we have gotten rid of heaps of things over the last few years, we still have a lot of stuff, and my double-stacked bookshelf (and I have twice the volume of books than I do DVDs) has reminded me very strongly that "affluenza", despite how it is usually portrayed, is far from being confined to people on the urban fringes who own big plasma tvs. Maybe Clive Hamilton should start denouncing the evils of books - unlikely, though, as he is in the business of selling them - although to be fair, I haven't read Affluenza, just many of Dr Hamilton's opinion pieces and media releases over the years, so maybe he does mention it somewhere, but he's far more likely to denounce having a home theatre rather than having a home library. I'm looking forward to do the day when all media has been digitized, so I can carry around my entire book collection on an SD card.

We are now living in Mount Waverley, but it's really just 5 minutes up the road from our old place in East Oakleigh. It's closer to the Nott, and a little further from the Ming Wing, which means that Olav has an extra 5 minutes on his regular bicycle commute to work/study.

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