Best-laid plans and all that...
For Memorial Day weekend, I went out to Brenham to hang out with some friends and relax for a few days. Which means I didn't do any packing that weekend. This was right after my Fort Worth work trip (4-hr drive) and I left Brenham to go straight to Baton Rouge (5.5-hr drive) to teach all last week. While I was in Baton Rouge, we had to do a last-minute instructor switch because of a medical emergency... so I'm writing this from Tallahassee, Florida where I'm teaching this week, instead of teaching at my home office. I flew into Jacksonville and drove 2.5 hrs to Tallahassee. And after this, I'll fly to Dallas to play a concert at a handbell conference on Friday and then ride home with a friend (4.5 hrs) LATE Friday night. This means I don't get to do any packing this week either. Definitely wouldn't have gone to Brenham if I'd known. Also, I really didn't want to start my epic 4-day drive while already sick of cars and driving. Oh well.
On the bright side, my hotel is 5 minutes from my classroom site, and Tallahassee is actually quite pretty. More Georgia-ish than Florida-ish, heavily wooded, rolling hills. And it was only 65 this morning and is only supposed to be 88 this afternoon. Still humid, but better than the 95 it's supposed to be in Houston today. That's a win right there.
But, I got the last little bit of the garage stuff sorted and packed up, got a bunch of extra field guides from Mom to be packed, and got all of the Going But Not Field Stuff clothes washed. Really all that's left is the rest of the laundry, actually pack the clothes and shoes, etc., and finish packing up my bedroom. So I think everything's on-track, but still.
Also, my friends threw a going-away party for me on Saturday night, which was lovely (lots of Cards Against Humanity and sangria and AMAZING fajitas).
Still to do (random stuff):
- Car things (oil change, tire rotation, alignment, etc.)
- Cats to the vet for car-ride drugs
- Book AirBnB's for trip (didn't happen last week amid frantic travel arrangements for this FL trip)
- Finish laundry and clothes-packing
- Test-pack the car
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