victory at last!

not bad for 2 hours... i went from having a mountain of stuff on my bed, to having it mostly crunched into a reasonably small suitcase and a small carryon... yay lara!

to note: i'm notoriously bad at packing as i usually just roadtrip everywhere and figure i have plenty of room in the car. however, as i was the one who met the czech students when they first arrived from the airport and saw that they each managed to fit 2 months worth of belongings into a small backpack each, considering using my biggest suitcase seemed a poor idea -- it would make me feel i've overpacked for a month in europe, even though i could probably justify it.

eric's comment was, "but dude, they're european... they have no issue with wearing the same shirt 2 or 5 days in a row", which some weeks is the case... and i guess it bothers me a little more to do that just out of habit of conscientiously trying not to wear the same outfit too close together. who knows...

anyhow, it's a matter of compromise between (a) wanting to tote a smaller suitcase, and (b) not wanting to bust the seams of the currently mostly packed one... doht.

at least inside the current one, i have packed my bookbag, which is currently empty, so i can expand for the trip home if i so desire...

packing... i'm never any good at this game when it comes to airplane trips... doht :P

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besides the "i'm mostly packed" victory, there's also the "dude, i made my goal of walking 200 miles between memorial day and leaving for europe!!!"... after a walk 2-3 hours ago, i'm now up to 201 miles :) so yay for that!

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not victories to list, but here's some cool things to look at:

isn't this an awesome picture?

earth.google.com is an extremely cool and even more extremely addictive download... seriously, you have NO idea... one of the czech students claims he might not get around to packing to go home in time for the flight tomorrow b/c he's so hooked on playing with it. (hopefully i'll stop with it soon and crash too!... Ha)

i think that's it.... one more post stateside before i cross the ocean tomorrow :P

night y'all!