BOOKS. These college people entice you to come to their institution to learn all these great things, and what do you accumulate? Books! Lots and lots of books. Books you want to keep. But what the heck are you supposed to do with them? There is only so much room on my shelves at home, and only so much weight I can carry in a checked suitcase. Some days I would give anything to get to live in ONE place for more than one year. But there are most likely many years of being a nomad yet to come. Sigh...
In other news: I had fun shadowing "Frau" Sherman at the high school. She has some really good German students! Her classes are really fun. That was encouraging to see.
I spent the afternoon and evening yesterday (as in Sunday) with Amy Thomas. It's so cool how we can go months without seeing each other and then when we see each other again, nothing's changed between us. We still ramble all night long and never run out of things to talk about. I'm excited to see where God takes her next year.
Now all that's leftis packing, packing and more packing. Thursday morning we're off to Philly... I'm ready. I'm starting to feel Brentwood-ed out. I love the people but I can't stay in this place too long.
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books are horrible. mine have not been all in one place since i graduated high school. right now they are the closest they have been, with a third in boxes in my room, a third in boxes in the garage and another third on a shelf.
and they're expensive as hell to ship. if you need to mail your books, cheapest option is to use media mail through the us postal service. lower price by weight because they know books are heavy and they're trying to be helpful... or something. just make sure that it's only books, paper, cds, and other media - as soon as you put a sweatshirt or a coffee mug in the box, it no longer qualifies as media mail. it can cost as much as half of fed ex, as long as you can cope with the idea of not being able to use expedited services.
thanks for the advice. luckily both parents are flying with me to philly because we're driving from there to my grandparents' for their anniversary bash, so i'm just loading suitcases up... it is really hard to decide which ones to take and which to leave behind though.
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