Let the packing begin!

Okay, it’s officially time to get real. As much as I’m looking forward to my internship adventure, I’ve been in a bit of denial all summer. It’s not easy to leave the close community I’ve developed here at Luther, nor is it a pleasant undertaking to pack up all my worldly belongings, transport them, and unpack them.

But I’m moving in two and a half weeks now, and as of yesterday morning I had yet to begin any substantial preparations for that endeavor. So yesterday afternoon I started the monumental undertaking by collecting some boxes from the Luther bookstore. They sat in my car for a couple hours in the 93-degree heat, so when I got into my car later, it was so humid that my glasses fogged up, and it smelled like soggy cardboard. Gross.





I followed up that experience by hauling all the boxes I kept from my last move (and the several moves before that, in many cases) from my storage space to my apartment. As I mentioned, it was 93 degrees, so my timing was impeccable as always.

Check out the process...from my storage bin:





To my trunk:





And my car:





To my living room:





The beastly black contraption in the corner is my loveseat, turned on end. It's served me well for two years (with a slipcover, bien sur!) but now it's being sent into the world to bless someone else with a compact yet serviceable place to sit.

As usual, I’ve accumulated more of everything since I moved here two years ago…more clothes, more dishes, more books and DVDs, more furniture. Time to do some sorting and donating! Of course, in my perpetual clumsiness, I already dropped my bin of Christmas decorations, so when December rolls around, I might discover that the Christmas stuff I already pared down got pared down a bit more against my will.

Anyway, I’ll be buried in piles of boxes for the next few weeks, and hopefully I'll become a regular at the Goodwill drop-off door. Wish me luck!