Day 2245 - Getting Ready

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I'm packing up all my stuff for the trip tomorrow, and I just realized it's been a long time since I last went on a trip. There's sort of a weird feeling that you get when packing everything--it's really exciting, but at the same time it basically feels like a job. Packing is a struggle. I don't understand why I have such a hard time just putting clothes into a bag. With each thing I put in, I start thinking about what the next couple days will be like and then I end up taking a ten minute break to stare at the ceiling. Then I get to thinking about what the ceiling of our hotel will look like, and eventually I've tried to count all the little Spackle dots around the perimeter of my room.

Isn't it weird that a change of scenery can make such an impact? I'm only traveling one state away but it takes me twenty minutes just to pack a shirt.

I think that maybe travel is a lot more complicated than just a trip to New Mexico. It's like every time I pack my bags, I think of all the places that there are in the world. And there are a lot of places. And not just places that I'd actually go--also, uninhabited islands, frozen wastelands, pockets of nuclear radioactivity, fictional settings. With each t-shirt that I pack, I think about how crazy big the world is.

And I'm traveling to a small part of it tomorrow, so that'll be nice.

love always,
-jim.