How many goddamn channels is Law&Order on?
I think at any time of the day you can turn on your tv and watch some version of Law&Order. I've been watching tv for three hours and had my choice of Law&Orders on two different channels, and we just have normal cable. That's a little much. I mean, the show is enjoyable as cop shows go, but for crissakes, they have their own network or something. Where is my 24 hour Simpsons channel?
I'm trying to stock up on all the tv I can before I go back to Scotland. Even when I do get to watch tv, they always change programs on you just when you're getting into something. Aw!
I have been buried under a mountain of stuff since leaving Madison last Sunday. I've enjoyed looking at old pictures and even found those crazy letters Jennifer used to send me (Remember Grandpa's sidekick?). I have coloring books from when I was a kid, a fine selection of Roxette tapes, some really hideous sweaters, enough empty notebooks to start my own stationery store, and plenty of boxes of books from my days scrounging half-price books and library book sales. Of course I want to bring every single bit of it to Edinburgh. Damn it, I was so jealous of Jordan and Annie filling the truck with their stuff knowing the whole time I have to give up/sell most of my things in order to have a respectable shipment to send across the Atlantic. I really shouldn't give a shit about giving up under-cabinet lights and extension cords and colored pencils, but I keep thinking "this is perfectly good! I might use this Physical Geography book to make cool fridge magnets..." And so on.
I think I've ranted about my pack-ratness before, but there's just something comforting about having all these things and they remind me of home. I know junky old spoons and plastic cups aren't worth it but I keep feeling kind of pissed off about having to give up a lot of this stuff. My mom and I almost got into it when she suggested I give up my Muppet Show lunchbox. Muppet Show lunchbox! I even have a picture of the damn thing from 1994 in the lineup of famous Badger lunchboxes (Karin's Star Wars box, Gen's He-Man, and Jennifer's Scooby Doo are also featured). But then I started looking at it and noticed it's quite rusty on the inside and when it comes to it I like the Dark Crystal one Karin gave me better. I just stopped thinking about it and put it in the rummage sale pile. Anyway, I think I feel more sentimental about my stuff partially because I haven't seen most of it in a year and partially because I live far away from home as it is, so why shouldn't I surround myself with peices of my history and home? Shipping costs. That would be the reason. Where are the Star Trek teleporters to beam my shit over to Edinburgh? Why do we not have this technology, people? That fucking show has been on for like, forty years and we haven't figured out how to actually do it?
Okay, now I'm really getting desperate. Desperate Packrats. Karin and I could start a new series. And after helping load Jerbs's truck I think he might be asked to join the cast as well.
I hope everyone is doing okay in this Time of Moving. Mid-August is always such hell. I can't wait to visit Brooklyn to see all the cool kids in their new place. I'd like to have a late-night monkey pile with movies and all the non-NYC kids would be there too.
I miss you guys all the time. I'm excited to go back home to Edinburgh, but that doesn't ever make me miss you guys any less. Just wanted everyone to know that I'm thinking about you all tonight. Well, pretty much every night. Talk to y'all soon.
Love, Kristin
I'm trying to stock up on all the tv I can before I go back to Scotland. Even when I do get to watch tv, they always change programs on you just when you're getting into something. Aw!
I have been buried under a mountain of stuff since leaving Madison last Sunday. I've enjoyed looking at old pictures and even found those crazy letters Jennifer used to send me (Remember Grandpa's sidekick?). I have coloring books from when I was a kid, a fine selection of Roxette tapes, some really hideous sweaters, enough empty notebooks to start my own stationery store, and plenty of boxes of books from my days scrounging half-price books and library book sales. Of course I want to bring every single bit of it to Edinburgh. Damn it, I was so jealous of Jordan and Annie filling the truck with their stuff knowing the whole time I have to give up/sell most of my things in order to have a respectable shipment to send across the Atlantic. I really shouldn't give a shit about giving up under-cabinet lights and extension cords and colored pencils, but I keep thinking "this is perfectly good! I might use this Physical Geography book to make cool fridge magnets..." And so on.
I think I've ranted about my pack-ratness before, but there's just something comforting about having all these things and they remind me of home. I know junky old spoons and plastic cups aren't worth it but I keep feeling kind of pissed off about having to give up a lot of this stuff. My mom and I almost got into it when she suggested I give up my Muppet Show lunchbox. Muppet Show lunchbox! I even have a picture of the damn thing from 1994 in the lineup of famous Badger lunchboxes (Karin's Star Wars box, Gen's He-Man, and Jennifer's Scooby Doo are also featured). But then I started looking at it and noticed it's quite rusty on the inside and when it comes to it I like the Dark Crystal one Karin gave me better. I just stopped thinking about it and put it in the rummage sale pile. Anyway, I think I feel more sentimental about my stuff partially because I haven't seen most of it in a year and partially because I live far away from home as it is, so why shouldn't I surround myself with peices of my history and home? Shipping costs. That would be the reason. Where are the Star Trek teleporters to beam my shit over to Edinburgh? Why do we not have this technology, people? That fucking show has been on for like, forty years and we haven't figured out how to actually do it?
Okay, now I'm really getting desperate. Desperate Packrats. Karin and I could start a new series. And after helping load Jerbs's truck I think he might be asked to join the cast as well.
I hope everyone is doing okay in this Time of Moving. Mid-August is always such hell. I can't wait to visit Brooklyn to see all the cool kids in their new place. I'd like to have a late-night monkey pile with movies and all the non-NYC kids would be there too.
I miss you guys all the time. I'm excited to go back home to Edinburgh, but that doesn't ever make me miss you guys any less. Just wanted everyone to know that I'm thinking about you all tonight. Well, pretty much every night. Talk to y'all soon.
Love, Kristin