Packing

In the past month I've finished editing an article for the law review, wrapped up my clerkship at the Federal Reserve, thrown two 30th birthday parties for my one and only, gotten engaged to that same one and only, moved out of Jenny and Eric's spare bedroom in Washington, D.C. and unloaded all of my things into my parents' upstate New York attic for the umpteenth time of my life, and negotiated the terms of a Hong Kong apartment with a gentleman named Pinky Lung.

Said apartment is only 450 square feet (and in HK, they trickily count one's share of common spaces such as the elevator as part of the square footage), so packing should theoretically be easy: bring as little as possible. But 5 months in Asia consisting of both school and traveling necessitates a wider range of things than one would think. My goal is to throw it all together tomorrow morning, to give me all of Tuesday for a last-minute trip to CVS (to stock up on hair gel and migraine medicine) and Border's (to try and find a Cantonese phrasebook). Tom and I rendezvous at his uncle's house in Boston on Tuesday evening, and take the shuttle flight out of Logan on Wednesday morning to JFK. From there, it's a bit more than 15 hours directly to HKG. Hopefully the positive reviews I've read about Cathay are true!

I will try and use this blog as a bit of a journal -- and a nice, optional (for my readers) way to provide updates :-).