this sham of a life
so... in about 15 hours i leave for the mountains... i leave for another round of hoodrat camping. i have no idea how warm or cold or wet or dry it will be... i have apprehensions about the kids i'm taking, as they are kind of crazy... i'm overwhelmed.
it's one day longer this year than it was last year... four days to five.... that's a lot of extra time when you're considering a whole other round of not showering. a whole other day of not bathing. a whole other day of wet wipes instead of fresh flowing water for cleanliness... and while i know we've progressed from teh days of the red tent and total isolation/shame for menstruating women, i don't feel the need to proove my feminine power by strutting through the foliage to deal with my biz. but i have no choice... and you have to pack out what you pack in... so.. yeah.
anyway.
on a brighter note, my insurange guy told me to go ahead and take everything i could to the cleaners. so in a frantic state, i loaded ALL my mobile textiles - clothes, towels, sheets, coats, bathing suits - into garbage bags to take to the cleaners. now, because there aren't that many cleaners that will do fire/smoke damage stuff, i have to go to this one great place on the south end of atl. and the manager that i need to talk to? not in in the afternoons. so! my car, which will sit happily on the street the entire time i'm gone on the Dangerous Minds meets Deliverance adventure, is filled to the brim with all my clothes and what not.
i'm also moving shelters once i get back. i'm moving into julia and scott's house where i will have my own room. this is an upgrade for sure, and i think meka is please too. there's no quicker way to ruin a friendship than to try to share a bed, a wardrobe, and a 700 sq foot one bedroom with them. but luckily, as i'm leaving tomorrow, i got out before things got bad between us. we'll survive this.
i suppose that's about it for now. you know you're busy when you are looking forward to a 6 hour bus ride with 50 over excited adolescent children, simply because it's the first time in about 10 days you've had nothing you be doing instead of what you're doing, unless you were doing something important that you didn't want to be doing anyway... does that make sense?
it's one day longer this year than it was last year... four days to five.... that's a lot of extra time when you're considering a whole other round of not showering. a whole other day of not bathing. a whole other day of wet wipes instead of fresh flowing water for cleanliness... and while i know we've progressed from teh days of the red tent and total isolation/shame for menstruating women, i don't feel the need to proove my feminine power by strutting through the foliage to deal with my biz. but i have no choice... and you have to pack out what you pack in... so.. yeah.
anyway.
on a brighter note, my insurange guy told me to go ahead and take everything i could to the cleaners. so in a frantic state, i loaded ALL my mobile textiles - clothes, towels, sheets, coats, bathing suits - into garbage bags to take to the cleaners. now, because there aren't that many cleaners that will do fire/smoke damage stuff, i have to go to this one great place on the south end of atl. and the manager that i need to talk to? not in in the afternoons. so! my car, which will sit happily on the street the entire time i'm gone on the Dangerous Minds meets Deliverance adventure, is filled to the brim with all my clothes and what not.
i'm also moving shelters once i get back. i'm moving into julia and scott's house where i will have my own room. this is an upgrade for sure, and i think meka is please too. there's no quicker way to ruin a friendship than to try to share a bed, a wardrobe, and a 700 sq foot one bedroom with them. but luckily, as i'm leaving tomorrow, i got out before things got bad between us. we'll survive this.
i suppose that's about it for now. you know you're busy when you are looking forward to a 6 hour bus ride with 50 over excited adolescent children, simply because it's the first time in about 10 days you've had nothing you be doing instead of what you're doing, unless you were doing something important that you didn't want to be doing anyway... does that make sense?