Over 100lbs of books seems excessive.

Let's back up.

Tyler took me box-shopping this morning, and Heather and Jess came over tonight. With their beyond-amazing help, I am now almost entirely packed.

There are some odds and ends. The exact contents of the carry-on has not been finalized. The pictures haven't gone into picture cartons. I'm sure ( Read more... )

Mount Holyoke gave her an award at graduation. It arrived yesterday, after many postal and communications hangups. ( Photos: The Helen Warren Smith Award for Leadership )

I am having trouble doing things -anything- because I'm scared I won't do the right thing. If there's a thing that makes everything better, I want to do that. That would be important.

I don't know which shirt to wear, because what if one of these shirts is the shirt that makes my mom not dead and I don't pick that one? How could I possibly go on