Oh the logistics of it all!
An ode to packing:
Oh packing, how I hate packing.
/ode
You wouldn't know it, but I was an English major.
Anyway, I feel somewhat guilty starting this blog so early without having any posts here to entertain you all. Admittedly, I am naturally presuming here that the hordes and masses of the "few, chosen" readers are interested enough to follow up on the link and actually check my site out!
So life is quite hectic at the moment, per usual, I suppose. I'm being kicked out of my place in five days because a new tenant is moving in. I was initially getting ripped off on my housing here, still am, but by quite less...and the deal in order to have that happen was for me to move out a month earlier. Although I will only be in Brussels for another 11 days...
Luckily, a colleague will let me crash at her place, just days before her wedding (in Slovakia! which I can't make)...in fact, I will be at her place a couple days after she leaves. I cannot wait because perhaps I will get more than the one to two hours of sleep nightly I've been getting here. As many of you know, I'm quite a light sleeper, and here it seems as if the joke was on me...not only am I at the crossroads of three bus lines, but I'm also in the noisiest neighborhood in Brussels. People drive by blasting music at all hours of the morning, or (and this is the best) they park their cars outside my window and chill out for a couple hours, at around 2 a.m...Joyous, really.
In addition to all that, temperatures are often in the 90s during the days, and don't cool down much lower than the 70s. I don't know I'll survive North Africa--although, that is a dry heat. Here, it's a stifling, humid, heavy heat...oh yes, and nearly nothing (not even my office building) has air conditioning. Correction: the office building's AC works only up to about 80 degrees. Welcome to Europe! At nights I cannot leave my windows open because of the noise, which still permeates the walls and windows despite them being closed (earplugs do not work)...and I cannot sleep well with them closed (or even open)...because of the heat.
Give me a room with air conditioning and silence...and I shall sleep for weeks.
Anyway, aside from the packing up of my stuff and moving elsewhere in a couple days, I have to figure out how to get my stuff back to the States (as well as my laptop)--anybody know someone passing through Brussels on the way back to California?
Then it's a matter of finishing up my last weeks or so of work--and there's lots of it--plus putting together my things for the trip. This includes trying to find the stores that sell whatever random assortment of things I need for the trip (paying more than should be necessary), and then packing up again what is left of my things.
Oh yes, and I must also find a place to stay in London for four days. Ideas? Tips? Friends? Contacts?
So, there you go. There's the what's what and the where's where thus far. Obviously not much figured out yet, but I do feel better for having wrote all that down.
Thanks.
Oh packing, how I hate packing.
/ode
You wouldn't know it, but I was an English major.
Anyway, I feel somewhat guilty starting this blog so early without having any posts here to entertain you all. Admittedly, I am naturally presuming here that the hordes and masses of the "few, chosen" readers are interested enough to follow up on the link and actually check my site out!
So life is quite hectic at the moment, per usual, I suppose. I'm being kicked out of my place in five days because a new tenant is moving in. I was initially getting ripped off on my housing here, still am, but by quite less...and the deal in order to have that happen was for me to move out a month earlier. Although I will only be in Brussels for another 11 days...
Luckily, a colleague will let me crash at her place, just days before her wedding (in Slovakia! which I can't make)...in fact, I will be at her place a couple days after she leaves. I cannot wait because perhaps I will get more than the one to two hours of sleep nightly I've been getting here. As many of you know, I'm quite a light sleeper, and here it seems as if the joke was on me...not only am I at the crossroads of three bus lines, but I'm also in the noisiest neighborhood in Brussels. People drive by blasting music at all hours of the morning, or (and this is the best) they park their cars outside my window and chill out for a couple hours, at around 2 a.m...Joyous, really.
In addition to all that, temperatures are often in the 90s during the days, and don't cool down much lower than the 70s. I don't know I'll survive North Africa--although, that is a dry heat. Here, it's a stifling, humid, heavy heat...oh yes, and nearly nothing (not even my office building) has air conditioning. Correction: the office building's AC works only up to about 80 degrees. Welcome to Europe! At nights I cannot leave my windows open because of the noise, which still permeates the walls and windows despite them being closed (earplugs do not work)...and I cannot sleep well with them closed (or even open)...because of the heat.
Give me a room with air conditioning and silence...and I shall sleep for weeks.
Anyway, aside from the packing up of my stuff and moving elsewhere in a couple days, I have to figure out how to get my stuff back to the States (as well as my laptop)--anybody know someone passing through Brussels on the way back to California?
Then it's a matter of finishing up my last weeks or so of work--and there's lots of it--plus putting together my things for the trip. This includes trying to find the stores that sell whatever random assortment of things I need for the trip (paying more than should be necessary), and then packing up again what is left of my things.
Oh yes, and I must also find a place to stay in London for four days. Ideas? Tips? Friends? Contacts?
So, there you go. There's the what's what and the where's where thus far. Obviously not much figured out yet, but I do feel better for having wrote all that down.
Thanks.
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