Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Why B-less when you can B-more?

Baltimore here I come! Easily the most exhausting day since I've been home. Ran, submitted 2 applications, the bank, gas, Office Max, packed and packed and packed, sushi for dinner with the fam. (Incidentally, Pancho and his parents also went there for dinner. Naturally, they showed up as we were finishing. typical Spanish late-eating.).

But the car is about 93% packed. Unbelievably, I'm not leaving anything behind that I really want to bring. And there were only a few moments of tension. Really, can I be blamed for a) wanting to bring my supercute things? That Ona pitcher was coming no matter what had to be left instead and b) I can't help it for having accumulated a truly ridiculous amount of clothing since I never really outgrow anything. Shirt from 4th grade? check. But, yes, the impossible has been accomplished. I am packed and ready to go. Well, let's see how the morning goes with the last minute addition of toiletries and the overnight bag. :)

The drive to Durham is about 12 hours. Leaving at 6am. There is discussion about doing time lapse photos every half hour, to see the progression of our descent into insanity I guess. I'm hoping for some good stories from the trip. You know, like how I just had to make that stop for the picture with the giant peach on the side of the road in Georgia. etc etc.

Set up my mom's iPod shuffle that I got her for Christmas. Originally, she asked me for a "cd player to use at the gym." -You mean a Walkman? I'm not sure they make those anymore, Mom.
So I got her a shuffle. Walked her through downloading iTunes and importing cds ("can I listen to my cds on it?") and buying songs. I'm confident she can do it. Unfortunately, ran out of time to set up her digital camera. Probably going to require a long phone call from Baltimore to walk her through that ordeal. Just trying to get her a little more caught up on technology here.

Then we watched The Duchess. ehh. I like Keira Knightly (obviously) and history period movies (double obviously) but it really wasn't that great. Didn't quite capture and draw you into it. The male characters weren't fleshed out enough.

1 comment:

  1. AAACK! I'm so excited for yout to be in B-more! I hope you enjoy my welcome to Baltimore e-mail, which consist entirely of that NYTimes article. At least you know I was thinking of you. I about died when I saw it. I hope everything goes well with you drive and that you and Pancho don't kill each other on the way... :-)

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