All over except for the paperwork

I've got my layoff paperwork, and I've got my new hire paperwork[1]. So I'm rushing headlong into the interstitial space between jobs.
Plans for the next two weeks:

• Move a bunch of crap from the second floor of my house to the basement.
• Tear up the carpeting on the second floor of my house.
• Figure out what to do with the underlying floor (at least some of it is nice hardwood. Some of it is almost certainly not.
• Figure out if it's worth moving the wiring to allow for a pocket door leading into the front room on the 2nd floor. Optionally, move the wiring.
• Figure out what to do with the big piece of missing wall in the bathroom[2] in my apartment and possibly even take action on it.
• Play a bunch of Rock Band
• Deal with my stepmother's upcoming surgery - this may be a single day or may stretch for a couple of days, depending on how things go and how fast she recovers
• Read a bunch
• Chill the heck out
• Do some outcrufting
• Send the layoff paperwork back to the (former) corporate mothership

[1] I've already done as much of the advance setup as I can - I've got direct deposit set up and all my contact info and such in their system. Nothing else can happen until I wave my passport at them.
[2] The shower had been misbehaving for a while, so I had a plumber come in and look at it. Instead of taking the "well, see if you can find somewhere that has parts that fit this old three-valve system" approach, I opted to have the whole valve mechanism replaced with a new single-knob thing. This involved pulling apart about a 2.5' square chunk of wall. My options are to have that section patched with similar tile, or have the whole shower area wall tile pulled and replaced with something that's not questionably installed and backed by something that's not drywall or plywood or whatever the hell else they put tile on.

and now, a cinematic cool-down

After 17 movies in 49 hours last weekend, I'm up for another 5 movies tomorrow - the second 5 of the best picture oscar nominees at the amc framingham theater (not the premium). There was plenty of room last weekend, if anyone is thinking of showing up for tomorrow's half. I'm looking forward to seeing "the king's speech", "black swan", and a second viewing of "inception". I have no real interest in seeing "the social network" aside from the aaron sorkin dialogue, but whatever. And I don't actually know much of anything about "winter's bone".

Should be another fun time.

Another kickass woman

Not a geek, but still pretty damned kick-ass. Stagecoach Mary who was the first black woman to work for the US postal service, back in the 1870's, starting when she was 60 years old.