sarahmichelef

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.