Unpacking
There is something so inexpressibly delightful about unpacking books, taking them from their boxes and looking at them anew as I find a spot for every one upon my shelf.
The shipping company delivered the bulk of my things today and I finally have time to sit down and sort them out, not an overwhelming task as there are only about fifteen boxes. I kind of like organizing everything else (being so happy it has arrived and I can stop scrounging for dinner, etc.) but I love, absolutely love, unpacking my books. I only shipped one box of novels and fluff - I had to be stern with myself because I had a six hundred pound weight limit - but I got to ship all of my textbooks because they had their own special weight allowance as 'professional gear.'
I know I am a big geek to enjoy unpacking titles such as 'Probability and Random Processes for Electrical Engineering' and, even better, 'Fourier Optics' but I do. Indeed, I have been struck again with the desire to go back and get my PhD in Electro-Optics. I know! Absolute GEEK alert! And I'm not even that brilliant of an engineer, but I do so love studying the subject, it is really, really interesting, and maybe if I can't do at least someday I can teach. It would be kind of cool. I may well be destined for perpetual study. Oh, dear.
But my books are on the shelf, so now this is home.
The shipping company delivered the bulk of my things today and I finally have time to sit down and sort them out, not an overwhelming task as there are only about fifteen boxes. I kind of like organizing everything else (being so happy it has arrived and I can stop scrounging for dinner, etc.) but I love, absolutely love, unpacking my books. I only shipped one box of novels and fluff - I had to be stern with myself because I had a six hundred pound weight limit - but I got to ship all of my textbooks because they had their own special weight allowance as 'professional gear.'
I know I am a big geek to enjoy unpacking titles such as 'Probability and Random Processes for Electrical Engineering' and, even better, 'Fourier Optics' but I do. Indeed, I have been struck again with the desire to go back and get my PhD in Electro-Optics. I know! Absolute GEEK alert! And I'm not even that brilliant of an engineer, but I do so love studying the subject, it is really, really interesting, and maybe if I can't do at least someday I can teach. It would be kind of cool. I may well be destined for perpetual study. Oh, dear.
But my books are on the shelf, so now this is home.