In Beijing
Posted Saturday, August 04, 2007 @ 01:19 AM
I would say that packing has been a breeze, and certainly the suitcase bit has been. It's the boxes for school that have been the real trouble. It's sort of like packing for the trip I'm about to go on, and packing for all future trips before May 2008.
The parade of boxes in and out of my life every few months is becoming a nice punctuation. ("This is when I moved out of this place, so I know that thing happened before then. Before I moved into this place, I felt this way," etc.) Suddenly there are many more commas in my life, as far as moving goes—a period at the end of Birmingham last year, an ellipsis for Christmas break. A comma for the beginning and end of summer—an em dash for Beijing—then school again. Pretty soon the string of places I've lived with flattened boxes in the closet will form a complex, Victorian paragraph.
Aside from restructuring the sentence I'm living, the boxes are kind of a pain. Each new time I pack for somewhere I downsize. It seems absurd to take more than one box of anything anywhere—even the one suitcase, one carry-on, one purse, one pillow system of overseas travel is cumbersome. Lately I've been purging, with the help of ebay, envelopes of goodies mailed to friends, and donations, all of which I hope to continue at a feverish rate when the school year begins.
What are the packing rules you set for yourself, moving, traveling, or otherwise?
At any rate, I'm off at full-speed later this morning to Birmingham, Beijing, then Tuscaloosa. You can expect an update in late August when I've recovered from jet lag, move-in day, and my first day of class.
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have fun!!!
and as for myself when i moved back from the dorms i thought i downsizing until i recently looked through stuff and purged two more huge bags of things. i keep thinking, "oh this is all i need" but then i get attached to certain things and my packing gets all weird.
04 Aug 2007, 1:39 AM.
Reading your work is a consistently enjoyable and creatively inspiring part of my life. Keep up the good work.
08 Aug 2007, 5:59 PM.
The last frame of that photobooth set looks like the face that we in the ATL like to call the "sexy face." Better watch out flashing it around like that.
My address is the same Birmingham one I've had a while:
2413 Jannebo Road
35216.
18 Aug 2007, 4:07 PM.