The Smorgasbord of Douglas Bell

Editor’s Note: This post was written while I was on the airplane about 8 hours ago. For obvious reasons, I couldn’t post it then. I am now at AU, posting this from my dorm.

Well, I guess that I was going to post this yesterday, but yesterday turned out to be quite a hectic day that it didn’t work out. Instead, I’m actually writing this blog post on the plane. Guess it works out, since I do need something to occupy myself for the next few hours, right?

Fortunately, yesterday didn’t turn out to be a big all-packing all-day day. Maybe that would have reduced the evening stress a bit, but it did provide the opportunity for a nice chance to go around San Mateo one last time. My parents and I took our harp-flute-cello trio to the park one last time, and despite it being a little bit windy, we actually had a bit of an audience this time.

Unfortunately, yesterday wound up being the big room-cleaning that I had procrastinated on during the summer. In some ways, that might have been a good thing, because when you’re about to move away for four months, the pack-rat tendency is significantly mitigated. Essentially for all of the stuff that I’ve accumulated and has been sitting around making a mess in my room all these years for no reason, it can either come with me, get kept somewhere at home, passed along to my family, or get recycled. Because the first two have significant space limitations, you can bet that I doubled the size of our paper recycling pile yesterday. So now the room is nice and clean which is good since my brother has it to himself now. The downside: DUST! So yesterday and today I’ve got a bit of hay fever, though the plane ride has been helping to improve it a bit.
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