Packing :-(
Jun. 15th, 2009 09:59 pmI hatehatehate packing. SA and a colleague came over yesterday and helped a bit, but I still haven't quite finished, and tomorrow is an absolute deadline (cos that's when the driver is coming to collect all my stuff). All my books and personal items are packed, now I need to do clothes and figure out if I have any space left over for kitchen things. Also need to clean before I box up my vacuum cleaner!
I've been tidying up at work too, obviously, and it's a bit depressing how I keep coming across my notes from early on when I had such grand plans for this project. Bah. I left early today and went to buy some plastic storage boxes because I wasn't sure I'd have quite enough cardboard boxes. Ended up with a giant suitcase as it was considerably cheaper than the equivalent volume of boxes and may be useful in its own right.
Of course I have been procrastinating from evil packing by writing emergency FAQs and a journal-tweaking guide for Dreamwidth. This is why I should not get involved with volunteering! But Dreamwidth firefighting leads to adoration, whereas packing just leads to big piles of boxes and depressing reminders that I am about to leave my beloved little flat for an uncertain future. Guess which is more gratifying?
Plz snd hugs?
In more cheerful news, Screwy is coming here tomorrow, for a flying visit at a slightly awkward time. I have carrot and lentil soup. Thursday I am going out with all my colleagues, to the lovely veggie restaurant, Hermans, and even a few ex-colleagues, like RS, are joining us. And although leaving is going to be very sad, the result of leaving is that I get to see![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jack and possibly some other Cambridge folk, and a week on Thursday I'm going to New York and seeing hatam_soferet, and once in north America I shall get to see ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rysmiel and if things go well, darcydodo and compilerbitch.
I've been tidying up at work too, obviously, and it's a bit depressing how I keep coming across my notes from early on when I had such grand plans for this project. Bah. I left early today and went to buy some plastic storage boxes because I wasn't sure I'd have quite enough cardboard boxes. Ended up with a giant suitcase as it was considerably cheaper than the equivalent volume of boxes and may be useful in its own right.
Of course I have been procrastinating from evil packing by writing emergency FAQs and a journal-tweaking guide for Dreamwidth. This is why I should not get involved with volunteering! But Dreamwidth firefighting leads to adoration, whereas packing just leads to big piles of boxes and depressing reminders that I am about to leave my beloved little flat for an uncertain future. Guess which is more gratifying?
Plz snd hugs?
In more cheerful news, Screwy is coming here tomorrow, for a flying visit at a slightly awkward time. I have carrot and lentil soup. Thursday I am going out with all my colleagues, to the lovely veggie restaurant, Hermans, and even a few ex-colleagues, like RS, are joining us. And although leaving is going to be very sad, the result of leaving is that I get to see
jack and possibly some other Cambridge folk, and a week on Thursday I'm going to New York and seeing hatam_soferet, and once in north America I shall get to see rysmiel and if things go well, darcydodo and compilerbitch.