i have now registered for classes. 6 of them in fact. i'm not sure how i'll survive... i may have to drop one at some point. at 4 i knew i would be occupied, at 5 i was relatively sure i'd be stressed, at 6 well i'm sure i'm going to be occupied, stressed, and probably grumpy.
parking - parking on campus is supposed to be next to impossible. i have no personal experience with this but my choices are 1. pay for parking (~$25/month though i'm not sure exactly how much) or 2. don't pay for parking and hope that there is parking on the street. honestly with the number of car break-ins in Baltimore it makes like the area around UH seem safe.
as i left washington state going into idaho i was sad. the old mantra you never know what you have until you've lost it has never been more true for me. though i guess technically i didn't lose seattle, i left it. seeing how little there is between seattle and the east coast made me appreciate just how much i had there and now being in baltimore i want to go back to redmond since at least there i didn't feel like i was living in an overcrowded city.
thus far i have concluded that i am more comfortable with recycling than not recycling now. it's strange to throw away plastic & paper. i prefer walking to driving. i have adjusted completely to the seattle climate and can no longer cope with humidity. at least in texas you drive everywhere because it's not reachable by walking. here you drive so that you're protected inside your car. in Texas & on the west coast people hold doors open for you not so much in baltimore.
i'm readjusting to driving here too. luckily that whole aggressive driving thing wasn't given up too much in seattle. i manuever through downtown traffic relatively easily though the drivers here are nuts. the roads have lots of holes & bumps - I'm positive i'm going to have to replace my shocks soon maybe every 6 months if this keeps up.
okay no new spam comments since the last time i posted... is it too soon to just take a breath? i'm still looking at WordPress, but I like the back end to Movable Type better... can't i have my cake and eat it too? Today's Ivy's birthday so everyone say happy birthday to her. She's a year older and soon I will be too.
I leave Seattle Saturday... yesterday we packed the car to make sure that everything fit. it almost all did. I think it's going to take some creative puzzle fitting skills. Luckily i'm good at puzzlefighter and ivy kicks butt at tetris and 5000+ piece puzzles. We should be able to get it all to fit.
It's a little bit sad that i'm leaving. i'm going to miss the people i work with and all the friends i've made here. they've all been extremely supportive - everyone knows someone on the east coast. i think if i get sad there i'll have to try and meet some of these friends of friends. friday night i have to figure out what to eat for dinner. mike & i are going to eat with felix and brendan (if we can find him), but i have to decide what i'll miss eating in Seattle. to tell the truth, i've been eating out so much i don't think i'm really concerned about missing anything at the moment. i guess we'll see if that changes in the coming months. One really bad thing is that my mom says that there are no Chinese grocery stores in baltimore... i dont' know how i'm going to cope with that one. I'll find out soon enough. Otherwise I may be visiting NYC more often than I had planned...
i'm really tired of spam. everytime i log in there's more of it. i might have to just stop blogging or try a new system. i see that james has switched to wordpress - anyone else have suggestions?
a friend of mine told me that packing doesn't ever end... well for me it has to end at some point. Movers will be here on the 18th and well if i'm not done packing they're taking everything that is packed and leaving the rest. I only have so much room in my car so everything else will have to be left behind. Most of my clothes are packed now it's the desk and all the random trinkets and knick knacks i have around the house. I may have to stop by Irwin's today to pick up the second mirror box. I went ahead and bought 2 from Shurgard storage though I may end up returning one if I can fit the rest of the frames into irwins.
funny thing i heard today: mac os xp.
i can see myself making that slip up but it's amusing nonetheless. two more weeks and i leave seattle eeks.
that's why i haven't written here lately. i just don't want to deal with them.
here's the short of my life for the past month:
wrapping up things at work - i feel like a sitting duck because i have work, but i don't get to do fun new things
shipping things to various parts of the country - it's hard to decide baltimore? or houston?
parents visiting - showed them around seattle some more (it's their second trip)
more to come...
packing, moving, leaving work, good bye party, saying good bye, cross country road trip.
in the meantime, as a note to myself - i still want to try making the following:
rillette