Packing for an Apartment

It’s a tough thing, the packing of things for my first apartment. My whole life is in my room, things from 20 years ago are still lurking in the corners. There are boxes of knick-knacks that mash together the past and present, and they overflow from the closet. Choosing the things to take is difficult, since I don’t know how much my apartment can hold.

I eventually decided that the best thing to do is take all the books for adults. Two years is a long time for me in books, so I’ll need as many as I can take. There’s the spices, the kitchen tools, the furniture, the clothes, the electronics, and the various amounts of junk that I need to take.

Leaving the children’s books and the extra junk in boxes is an easy choice, and I can always come back for things I leave behind. But it is better to decide things up front, and take as much as I can while I have help in moving things. Three flights of stairs is not easy to take heavy things up, so getting the big stuff out of the way is something I settled on right away. I just hope that everyone who volunteered to help me actually comes through. The more help, the better.

We shall have to see.

Packing and Writing, an All Consuming Force

I don’t know why I keep taking impromptu breaks from writing here, but I keep getting distracted by whatever it is that has my attention. A couple updates. Packing up for Grad school, if you want to find me you’ll have to find me up in Indiana University this fall. I’m having a crazy time trying to pack everything up.

I’m up to writing 1000 words a day minimum on the novel, which is good. Broke 200 pages a few days ago, though that’s only around 60,000 words. Due to planning issues, I’m not sure what the end length is going to be, though I’m willing to bet it will be around 150-200K words before I’m done with the first draft. I’m finally getting started writing longer stories, so I’m hoping that I’ll piece together a decent enough tale. Honestly I don’t know what the end goal word count wise is, since I will probably be deleting and adding a few things to the story when I go back in and edit the second and third drafts.

That’s really all that’s been going on, those two issues are consuming most of my time. I’m hoping that I’ll be updating the blog a little more often now.