I Am the Queen Goddess of Packing

I'm pretty sure I said this the day before we left for Pennsic last year, too, when I had to pack & load solo because Matthew was working in Boston & came home the night before we left. I got most everything packed last night. A week's worth of clothes for Matthew and me plus all of our cooking supplies (minus food & the stove) fit in 2 coolers, an 18 gallon rubbermaid tub and a 9-ish gallon rubbermaid tub. Things left lying around that could have gone into a larger receptacle are:

• the towels
• the blankets
• the pumps for the air mattress
• the plastic shoebox of toiletries
• two lanterns
• a batch of biscuits, yet to be made

These are all things that can just as well be tucked into nooks & crannies when we load the car this evening. Many of them will probably end up going in The Underneath (aka the spare tire well).

The next question becomes, why do things that need relatively immediate attention always come up right before I'm going to leave? I have to check on how much work a student in the class I TAd for last fall did (IIRC, the answer is none, but I can't just tell the dean that without checking). But I don't have a printout of the records, which means that they're in a zip file on X, who is at home. A friend also e-mailed me asking for a syllabus I developed a couple of years ago, which I believe is living in the same location as the records for last fall. It's not that I don't know where these files are, it's just that it's one more thing to do before we leave.

Addendum: James gets a hard copy of the syllabus. One less thing to do on my list that way.

so close to being ready to go...

I have hacked together a script of the editorial board meeting (rough draft, the editors will sort out the rest amongst themselves while I'm on vacation).
I have made a handout that lists the Rose Series' manuscript statistics and accepted and published projects.
I have put together a list of possible topics to be discussed at the editorial board meeting.
I have printed the current editorial board list (for my own reference).
I have e-mailed a copy of said list to the editors.
I'm pretty sure I haven't forgotten anything.

I still have to photocopy a ton of this stuff. While I go do that, I'm going to set the computer to backing up all of the Rose data. And then I'm going to pack up everything that's here in my office that I might need in the next week and a half and I'm going to get in my car and I'm going to go home.

Wish me luck on this latest madcap adventure.