To-Do List

Sep. 13th, 2010 01:29 pm
masterofmidgets: (lazy sunday)

Things to Do Before We Leave Tomorrow:
  • bake sandwich buns for dinner and the trip
  • wash all the clothes
  • sort out the books I'm taking from the books I'm leaving here
  • get three more cookbooks' worth of recipes typed up on the computer
  • print out vaguely important documents
  • make sure the electric wok is with the rest of the cooking stuff
  • set my Facebook football team to a 24 practice
  • find my chopsticks
  • pack my stuff
AUGH SO MUCH TO DO. I HATE ROAD TRIPS.

masterofmidgets: (cap wants to eat your brains)

Fact: I may be terrible at packing light, but I am amazing at packing. I just finished up getting all my stuff ready to go for tomorrow, and I am frankly astonished that that much random crap fit into my bags. I got 15 t-shirts into an overnight bag, which I'm pretty sure broke some major laws of physics. But I had to fit them into my overnight bag - my suitcase was full of jeans, underwear, and a million random girly hippie bath supplies. All I can say is thank goodness I'm getting picked up at the airport tomorrow, because I would not relish lugging these bags halfway around the Bay.

Flight leaves at 0-Dark-Hundred in the morning, but on the bright side I'll be in Sacremento before noon, and without the three hour saga of BART-Caltrain-bus that usually makes up that part of my trip. And by the end of the week I'll be back at Stanford! :DDDD

Here's to hoping that this summer's exceptionally high levels of suck have drained out the supply that usually fuels my travel curse. An uneventful flight would be the least the universe owes me right now.

masterofmidgets: (ask me later)
Moved: five large and heavy boxes containing not less than 120 books, a large number of clothes I never wear, and assorted school supplies and room accesories, like my printer and my desk lamp. Also a refrigerator, a folding chair, and a comforter in a plastic bag. All on my own, but luckily not very far. Stairs are not my friend right now though. Or the passcode doors. But I am a bit proud of myself for managing on my own, and for not getting caught out for not having a sticker for my fridge.

Abandoned to the Aether: one plastic storage crate and the lid from a second, both my laundry hampers (the mesh one because it is dying and the plastic one because I hate it), some clothes I really never wear and never will, and my room fan. The last one is not without some reservation, since it has been a serious lifesaver, but it just did not fit anywhere in my boxes. At least I know I can buy a cheap-ass tiny table-top fan, since I don't need to cool the whole room, just the five feet I happen to be occupying at the time.

Packed: one suitcase (almost nothing but jeans and underwear), one overnight bag (hair/bath products and the most embarrassingly large collection of t-shirts that either say stupid shit or have comic book characters on them), one messenger bag (pajama pants and a large selection of truly random-ass crap, including an umbrella, a bag of jewelry, more hair products, a toothbrush, a pair of flip-flops, and a ninja rubber duck), and one computer bag (computer and accompanying cords, books/comics, and every DVD I own). Luggage also includes my purse, two pillows, and my quilt, all of which I will be dragging by myself halfway across the Bay and through the San Francisco Airport. Have I mentioned that I hate traveling? And that I fail at packing?

Tomorrow is going to suck epically. And since the dorms close at 8am, I have to be out of here at the ass-crack of dawn even though my flight doesn't leave until two in the afternoon. On the up side, this will be very useful in avoiding last year's 'arriving at the airport 10 minutes after my flight starts boarding' scenario. On the down side, 8am. EW.

BUT THIS TIME TOMORROW I WILL BE IN NEW MEXICO.
masterofmidgets: (boostle is love)
I have achieved packing!

And for the first time ever, I've managed to pare my luggage down to one (1) checked suitcase and one (1) carry-on, ie my laptop case that is also full of dvds and books. My purse does not count! I am very proud of myself.

Tomorrow is going to be the same old same old: bus to Caltrain to BART to Airtrain to airport to second airport to Albuquerque to home. I have a layover in Phoenix, no idea how long. Hopefully long enough for me to eat and call my family, but we'll see, since last time I was supposed to go through Phoenix, I ended up in Las Vegas. I have my fingers crossed that this trip will fare better than trips of the past, but we all know how my travel luck usually shakes out. As long as I get home, I guess?

Should have internet when I get home *knocks on wood*. Either I'll be able to hook up directly with the ethernet cable, or, if worse comes to worse, I can use my dad's desktop. And it should only be a couple days, because once I get home we're taking Max in to get all shiny and fixed up and then I should have a new and functioning wireless card yay!

I think every time I go home, as much as I look forward to it, a part of me is really scared. What if my break goes by too fast? What if I don't make the most of my time? What if I don't get on with my family? What if my friends and I don't have anything in common any more? What if I've changed so much while I've been gone that I don't fit in back home now?

But you know what? Screw that line of thinking. I am going home, and I am going to see my family, and meet up with my friends, and sing carols, and eat awesome food, and goof off, and I am going to have a fabulous Christmas break. *grins*
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So. I am packed. Completely. Utterly. Inexorably, definitively, inescapably packed. We are leaving at about oh dark hundred tomorrow morning. This is it. I have now, officially, lost any chance I might still have had to chicken out and go to UNM. This is kind of mind-blowing. This time tomorrow I will be in California, and this time next week I will be almost about to start classes. Wow...

I need to change my desktop to something less...*ahem* suggestive for while I'm on the road with my dad. Don't think he'd appreciate looking over and seeing boysnogging. No. Oh well. When I'm about to move into my dorm and meet my roommate, I can change it to something really smutty. *grins* Hopefully I get someone not freaked out by  mansex boylove.
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I decided, as a way of pre-empting any random scary college-related  thing my grandma would try to force me to do, to offer to go through all my clothes and sort out what I wanted to give away, what I wanted to store, and what I wanted to take with me to school. Ooooh, was that a mistake. I now hate ALL my clothes. I'm thinking about becoming a nudist, just so I never have to see them again. And good gods, I can't believe how many things I have in the "taking to school" pile. 

A List of Things I Found While Clothes Sorting

a friendship bracelet
a book weight
pocky
more pocky
a completely empty container of pomegranate body lotion
a book of matches from the Qingdao University International Centre
a pair of shoes I've looking for in my closet for six months, which were actually under my bed
a toothbrush
a reading light
a much-doodled on logic puzzle from Pathways
a stuffed zebra
ONE red sneaker
three renegade socks - partnerless, which is okay since I make it a point to never wear matching socks, but I had rather thought there were more.

Conclusions to be drawn from this? I have issues. And too much stuff. And I definitely need to clean under my bed more often.

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