Packing

Today marked the beginning of the end of my life in LC. I started packing for College. I'm leaving exactly one week from today, and as much as me this morning would have said, "oh I can pack on Monday," the me this morning also remembered all the instances when I felt rushed packing for something important. And I've never packed for anything as important as college before, so the me this morning thought today would be a good day to start.

Well, I've already filled two trashbags full of clothes that I'm taking up to provo and another trashbag with donations for Deseret Industries. And all that's not even the end of the clothes (though it's most of them). Tomorrow I'm starting the process of college shopping. The me tonight doesn't think I need to buy very much. The me from tonight is hoping that the me tomorrow agrees.

I'm realizing three things:

One, even the basics of a comfortable life take up a lot of space. I've only worked on clothes so far, and I've already got quite a volume of cargo to haul up. We'll see how many more trashbags the rest of it all requires.

Two, I'm very grateful for our truck. Not that I didn't appreciate it before--it's so much fun to drive and you can't exactly strap kayaks on the roof of a Hyundai--but I'd hate to try to cram my stuff into the trunk and backseat of the white car. It would be possible but perhaps a bit claustrophobic.

Three, I'm ACTUALLY leaving for college. I've been waiting and excited for so long, but summer just flew by and it doesn't quite feel real that I'm LEAVING LC. There's lots that I'll miss and lots that I won't, but the fact is, I'm beginning a completely new chapter of my life, and that's a major transition.

Well, it's now twenty after eleven, and I'm trying to condition myself to a normal sleeping schedule so I must be off to bed. Wish me luck with the rest of the preparations!

--Christian

Here is a song from [title of show] that has a line about packing up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os71u7VB2jc

And here's the Natalie Weiss version--I don't know which I like better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F_GDPhZ7b4

Blogger freaked out with the whole embedding thing this time around--I don't know what happened, but sorry for the clutter.