The biggest moving-out effort for us so far happened yesterday. At the moment we're all even more annoyed with the people who own the building than usual, because after years of having the lifts in a near-fatal state, they finally decided to shut one of them down and repair it after one of the building managers happened to experience it for herself last week. That meant that one of the two already slow lifts has been out of service all week, and we've had to wait until everyone else has gone home before we have a hope of moving everything down with any reasonable speed. At the moment, the working lift has had all its wall and ceiling panelling removed and has dreary grey blankets draped around it, making it look like something out of a morgue. But I have to survive just two more trips on it before I no longer have to deal with it daily.

I started off yesterday crawling under the desks cutting ethernet cable ties apart with a small pair of pink paper scissors, and things just got more physically stressful from there. After organizing the man who turned up to take our old textbooks, we sorted miscellany into boxes, and at 6pm started taking them down from the office to a couple of jeeps that friends happened to own. Along with items that would have been easy enough to move if there hadn't been so many of them, we had to take a treadmill and a gigantically heavy medical table that's served as the boss's desk down to the car park. And while two of us were away at people's houses unloading things, the other two stayed behind to cart more things that nobody wanted down to the compactor enclosure. I had thought it was frightening enough during the day, but as I unlocked it last night I realized just how much it looks like Jacob's Ladder - the vague giant machine takes up most of the chain-linked and barbed-wired area, and around it are the remains of crutches and obviously possessed wheelchairs.

After being driven back home that evening with most of the contents of my desk (thankfully, my possessions in the office just amounted to one boxful and an extra monitor), I've been working on just a laptop today - I kept on looking up to my right and wondering why I could see the conference room instead of Eclipse. We also realized that we had to get rid of the giant plant standing in the corner - my own suggested plan was to just go out into the park outside, dig it a small hole and leave it there, and in the end, we went with a very similar plan. While most of the fourth floor was at lunch, the lobby gained a new plant that suspiciously doesn't quite match the others around it. I hope that nobody notices before we leave tomorrow - after all, how are you meant to camouflage a tree?