So, with less than 36 hours until I leave the Philly area, I am finally completely packed. Final count: 6 large plastic crates, 3 small/medium plastic containers, 4 large cardboard boxes, 6 small/medium cardboard boxes, 2 backpacks, 2 duffel bags, 2 printers, 1 large paper gift bag full of clothes hangers, 1 clothes basket full of miscellaneous stuff (mostly posters, wrapping paper, and 2 lamps), 7 garbage bags full of clothes and blankets. The bags of clothes & blankets (and one of the duffel bags, full of shoes) are going in a car-top carrier and everything else has to fit inside one SUV. I am confident I can make it happen. To be fair, this is EVERYTHING I own. I am not storing/leaving ANYTHING in Pennsylvania, not even in my mother’s house. So, while it looks/sounds like a lot, I think it’s a feat to reduce all of my belongings accrued in two-decades-plus to a single carload.

All my boxes & stuff…

My car-top carrier, filled with 7 bags of clothes and a duffel bag full of shoes…

Other exciting update: I figured out how to sign up this blog for e-mail posting capabilities, which means I will be able to easily update from my Blackberry during the road trip down there, including pictures! So that should be way cool.

Only things left to do are to throw all this stuff in the car and to make my playlist for the 24+ hour drive. Not in that order though. Playlist tonight, load up car tomorrow night. It is really kind of terrifying now that it’s so close. I am literally putting everything I own into a single car, driving for 3 days as far as I can go, and moving into an apartment I’ve never seen, alone. When I think of it that way, it sounds crazy. But then I think, after the travelling and the moving in and all the stress that comes with that, I get to be in grad school. I get to take ALL math classes. Really hard math classes. Classes that most people are never even exposed to and most people would never understand even a little bit. I’m going to love it. It’s a little pain for a lot of pleasure. I’ve gotta remember that and keep my eye on the prize. 🙂 (Of course, grad school itself will be stressful too. And hard. But so worth it.)