the worst part about packing is trying to fill boxes with some sense of order, so that if you need to get to specific things before those boxes are emptied, it's not entirely impossible (& if you're like me, you have moved more places where your boxes have not all been emptied until you moved again somewhere else). it's far easier to just stand over one box and some receptacle for garbage and distribute items in either one or the other. but you must have a strong will for resisting the urge to keep everything.

fun too is trying to schedule seeing every person that you know in a city you've lived in for almost six years.

there was something i was going to tell you about this house, but now i've forgotten.