Departure Anxiety
01/04/06 Filed in: Folderol
I won't leave for Boston until next weekend, but I'm
already dreading the packing that needs to be done.
I'll be gone for about three months, and I will be
able to make a few side trips back here, but my day
to day existence will be quite different from being
at home.
Usually, I just take a suitcase stuffed with clothes and my backpack crammed with electronics, disks, chargers, keys, etc, but as I'm doing two (essentially) concurrent gigs and will be away longer, I need to plan this with a bit more care than my usual goin'-away-in-ten-minutes-better-take-some-stuff-with-me style. I won't have to pack pens, say, or shampoo, because those things, I'm pretty sure, are to be found in Boston, but my list of essentials grows daily.
Happily for me, I stay at my friend Karen's house, which is large and comfortable and reasonably close to the first job, and which also houses a pre-teen boy, and one pre-teen boy makes up for 2 teenage girls in the rambunctious department, so even though I will miss the girls, Gabe will make it sound like home. It also has a small yard and sits close to the street. Why is that a bonus? Because last year, after the freakin' blizzard which dumped four feet of snow on us, we were able to dig out in a relatively short amount of time.
For the second gig, though, I will have to drive about 25 miles. In crappy New England weather. With lots of Boston drivers. I haven't driven in a quite a while, so this ought to be fun.
Usually, I just take a suitcase stuffed with clothes and my backpack crammed with electronics, disks, chargers, keys, etc, but as I'm doing two (essentially) concurrent gigs and will be away longer, I need to plan this with a bit more care than my usual goin'-away-in-ten-minutes-better-take-some-stuff-with-me style. I won't have to pack pens, say, or shampoo, because those things, I'm pretty sure, are to be found in Boston, but my list of essentials grows daily.
Happily for me, I stay at my friend Karen's house, which is large and comfortable and reasonably close to the first job, and which also houses a pre-teen boy, and one pre-teen boy makes up for 2 teenage girls in the rambunctious department, so even though I will miss the girls, Gabe will make it sound like home. It also has a small yard and sits close to the street. Why is that a bonus? Because last year, after the freakin' blizzard which dumped four feet of snow on us, we were able to dig out in a relatively short amount of time.
For the second gig, though, I will have to drive about 25 miles. In crappy New England weather. With lots of Boston drivers. I haven't driven in a quite a while, so this ought to be fun.
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