packing update 2

today started poorly. i was woken at 2.30am by the roommate's drunk boyfriend, and a collection of other people celebrating (as i was told this morning) the end of our lease. i spent an hour and a half trying to fall back asleep.

with everyone who was supposed to be facilitating the move completely hungover this morning, i had to start on my own. i woke up at 8.30am to get some time by myself and to get a good start on the day. i was showered and fed by 9.30am. i decided to dismantle my computer and remove the hard drive instead of trying to wipe it clean. and that took more time than it should have as i assumed that the whole computer needed to be taken apart to access the drive. in reality all i needed to do was remove one screw and push a latch. once i figured that out, i decided it was time to venture out and complete my errands.

errand one: get a library card. much easier than expected. i was handed one within a few minutes of being in the library.
errand two: check email and other websites related to my other errands. pretty successful once i had the library card. when you try to access a library computer it asks for your library number and that's it. you're on the web!
errand three: recycle my (now dismantled) laptop. i took the bus down roosevelt rather than walking my monster of a laptop to best buy. i think they are supposed to charge $10 to recycle computers but they didn't charge me anything. yeah me!
errand four: get milk. this was simple enough. walk from best buy to whole foods and buy milk. this is exactly what i did.

upon returning home, everyone was still asleep. so i tried to think of ways to entertain myself. i decided to pack some stuff. FINALLY! last night, before i even went to sleep (to be woken in the midst of it), i marked on my list of boxes which day i would do which boxes. when i did this i didn't set aside a day for cleaning, so i needed to be a day ahead of schedule to allow for that time.

today i did sunday's boxes. two book boxes and a dvd box. i'm very shocked about how accurately i assigned the boxes. after packing the first book box, i thought i might be able to get away with only one book box. but after i collected all the miscellaneous books and magazines from around my room, i found that two boxes were in fact in order. that's fine i had already planned it that way.

tomorrow, i intend to buy the sunday paper. to have plenty of packing/wrapping supplies. and do a few more boxes. i think the miscellaneous ones are ones to do.

also i've started to clean the refridgerator. i would have finished the bottom half but annie and i have already started to take it over. so i was only able to do the drawers.

more later, now onto more important things. (iit and the like)