searching for storage in all the wrong places

[arguchik]

today's mission is to secure a storage area. i've called a couple of places, and decided to take a 5x10(x10h) space at public storage in capitol hill. it'll be $98.80/month. all of my worldly possessions are going there tomorrow, except for one box of books and whatever i decide to put into my luggage to take with me to cali next week. oh, and whatever stuff i need to live in my empty space for a week--air mattress, bedding, etc.

this feels really weird--scary and exciting, both. i'm kind of excited about the work i'll be doing, and also about living in a place i've never lived before, even if only temporarily. i'm sure i'll learn a thing or two.

i think the most painful part, so far, has been trying to pare my book choices down to a single, shippable box. lol--it's like i have all these ideas about what i'll be able to read or review in 10 weeks, but i *know* i probably won't crack half of them. so send me some ruthlessness, ok? cuz i'll feel dumb, if i have to ship back a box of books i never even looked at.

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[arguchik.livejournal.com]

lol--yes, i'm sure you're right about that. i read/used a few of the ones i shipped to michigan last summer, not even a third of them. i've never been able to convince myself that 6 or 8 or even a dozen books are "enough" though. i guess it's no mystery why i ended up in a graduate program in literature... i think books are the *one* thing in this world that i am prone to hoarding or pack-ratting. everything else it's easy come, easy go, and i can be really ruthless about clutter and stuff i don't use or clothing i don't wear (i'm not ruthless 100% of the time, but i definitely *am* when moving). but not with books.