October 6, 1999

13 days left til moving day!

I'm way bummed....way tall bummed. Last week we had the midterm exam for the Economics course I'm taking in my spare -- ha ha -- time. I got a B on it... I thought I had it whipped. This sucks.

We did a bunch of packing for the move today. Steve and I apparently have wildly different philosophies of packing. Mine is "I have this large box, I will put lots of related items in it, and label it." So for example, I put all the afghans from the living room in one box. Steve's philosophy is "I have this large box, I'll put whatever's close at hand in it." So for example, he packed boxes with my old sysadmin magazines and sheets for the bed we don't have anymore, and labeled it "Misc." I don't get it.

I sliced up my logs of soap I made this past weekend into bars. I sharpened up my mitre box blade so that it would slice through the calendula petals in the Citrus Grove soap (rather than catching on them and dragging them through the soap, leaving ugly cut edges), which worked out pretty well. The seaweed soap also seems to be losing the seaweed smell and going back to the FO smell, which is a big relief. I mean, nori smells OK and all, but I'm not quite sure *I* want to smell like nori. :-)