Tue, 31 Aug 2004
Phew
Well, that's me packed. I even have some space in my
luggage for purchases while in Boston and NYC. We're flying
out tomorrow lunchtime (UK time -- about six in the morning US
time) and should be arriving in Boston late enough to fall
over.
I have a problem with travelling: I tend to spend almost as
much time angsting about packing my bags and making sure I
haven't forgotten anything as I actually do in transit. Which,
on the face of it, doesn't make much sense, does it? After
all, most of the stuff I need is readily available wherever I go:
toiletries, a change of underwear, that sort of thing. I can theoretically
live without a laptop for a couple of weeks -- a PDA with a working
email account should be an acceptable substitute, and it's not as if
I've ever gotten a significant amount of writing done while travelling --
but nevertheless I always travel as if I expect the muse to descend and
sit on my shoulder yelling orders through a megaphone.
After all this effort I've got a bad habit of getting
departure dates and times wrong. (This time around I was lucky
-- I thought I was flying out on Tuesday, not remembering that
the 1st of September was a Wednesday.)
Now I just have to hope it all goes smoothly ...
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