Work on the presentation for Wednesday continues at a modest but acceptable pace. I don't feel stressed about it either, which is always a good thing. Low-key is the key. In fact I'm feeling so confident in the work that I've accomplished on it so far that I am going to go to rowing class today instead of skipping like I was considering - but only because I'm hoping that they'll let me row in a single again and experience that sweet ecstacy. I hate team boats.
If things go as planned, the presentation will be done tonight and tomorrow I'll only have to worry about printing out overheads and writing up my little 3-page blurb for class on Wednesday. Then work on the big term paper starts, which I am hoping to finish by next weekend if I can get it together. With 29 days left in Germany, finals are bearing down upon us like a fat kid on a birthday cake. This semester, rather than freaking out and pulling out my hair, I simply choose to close my eyes and hope that it's over quickly. I can almost smell the freedom.
I am harboring doubts as to whether I should or should not drive down to Arizona this year. The more I think about it, the EASY thing to do would be to start shipping all my stuff to my grandparents' house instead of mine, and then just fly down to AZ. That would be much cheaper, I believe, since gas alone for the AZ trip would likely be in the neighborhood of $200, which is more than a plane ticket would even cost. Problem is, flying is not nearly as much fun as a road trip, and then there's the problem of the TV, which I am not wild about shipping (again), and the sheer amount of crap I have. The question is whether I have the sanity to be in a car alone with nothing but music for 3 days, and whether this road trip I've dreamed of doing for 4 years is really worth the extra few hundred bucks it would probably cost.
One thing I do know for certain: I am sick and tired of shipping my belongings back and forth between Phoenix and Seattle every 9 months.
Monday, July 3, 2006
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just out of curiosity--- why didn't you just get a storage unit? i leave about half my stuff at school at the end of every year-- sure, it kind of sucks "temp" living at "home" in tacoma during the summer, but it's waaaay better than hauling it across the mtns.
ship the stuff to arizona. take the road trip and a friend with you in a not so packed full car. leave the tv in germany (sell it to someone), because they're cheaper now here. and a plane ticket'll be more than $200 won't it?
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