To Do List

To Do Before Departure

• Laundry
  
• Take out the trash
  
• Send packages
  
• Make one pair of pants into one pair of shorts
  
• Turn in volunteer application to 826 Boston
  
• Find out about tattoo appointments¹
  
• Charge iPod and load it up with the necessities²
  
• Haircut?
  

Things To Pack

• At least 15 pairs of underwear³
  
• One pair of shorts
  
• One pair of pants
  
• Four t-shirts (maximum)
  
• One sweatshirt
  
• Phone charger
  
• Camera
  
• Notebook & pen
  
• The History of Love by Nicole Kraus⁴
  
• Toothbrush
  

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¹ I'd love to get my chest piece (typewriter ribbon across my collarbone) done while in Florida.
² Lately this means a bunch of songs that I can only describe as tender:
Meg Baird - Do What You Gotta Do
Neko Case - A Widow's Toast
Ivana XL - Unforgettable (Cover)
Feist - 1 2 3 4

³I am obsessed with changing my underwear. This will probably be heightened when access to showers is limited.
⁴I like this book, I really do--her writing is beautiful and there are some lines that just break me. But when I'm reading it, I usually end up thinking about Oskar Schell and heartbeats and the I Love You sent through a string from a girl in Manhattan and saved into a tin can by a boy in the Sixth Borough and how I just like Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close more even though it's probably not fair to compare them or at least it's been done before and anyway I should appreciate them both for their own literary merits. I'm committed to finishing it.