5/13/04 Moving Peter out of the West Village Dorm for the Summer:

Peter, unlike myself (and apparently Natalie) is EXTREMELY efficient when it comes to moving. He literally had everything packed in boxes and bags before I even showed up to keep him company in the car ride to and from Port Washington.

The common room, with Brendan watching the tele.

The empty Rav4 awaits.

I was flabbergasted when I saw Peter and his roommate's solution to the incomplete wall between their bedroom and the common area. We believe NYU does this to get around certain laws and codes that require this room to be considered a bedroom. And if they can have less bedrooms in the building, they cam probably get around certain taxes. That's the theory, anyway. So this open space above the door has long confounded residents of many modern NYU dorms.... until now. TOILET PAPER ROLLS. Not that expensive, and extraordinarily effective at not only preventing sound to go over the door, but also, it had the effect to dampening the sound in the apartment on both sides of the door in general, creating a softer, more pleasant acoustic. They are leaving this creation for the next tenants, as long as maintenance doesn't tear it down when cleaning the room.

We achieved the impossible.

The ENTIRE load of Peter's stuff fit into ONE TRIP. That is unprecedented, and its a testament both to Peter's spatial reasoning, and his extraordinary packing. And because it was one trip, he didn't need to come back to the city. And because he was not coming back to the city, I would get stranded on Long Island or have to take a very late night LIRR train back. And so, in the end, Peter and I did not have the usual road trip back and forth associated with his moving day (night). And so... I went home, and Peter slept far longer and more soundly this evening than we had expected.