But who's counting? We have not made enough progress on sorting, packing, throwing away, giving away and storing all our stuff. Plus we have a number of things still that we'd like to buy before we leave. I need a day pack, for instance, and new clothes, according to Susan. The house is still full of stuff: an unsorted, amorphous mass of things weighing on us. But we've been to San Francisco to see friends, Susan's been to Vegas and Portland to spend time with friends, we've been to Geneva to see my mom and my sister Katja, we've had Jim visit from California, my brother Rasmus and his wife Marie arrived today, and we've been studying Armenian. These things really are more important than packing. It wouldn't take more than one long day to throw everything we own into boxes if that's what it comes down to, although we wouldn't have anywhere to put all those boxes, which is why we need to reduce our belongings to a manageable pile. And we've been learning about Armenia: blogs, news, wikipedia, talking to people, emails to current and former volunteers. Apparently it's not quite Shangri-La, but most Peace Corps volunteers seem to like it.
Sorry about the self-absorbed banter. It's hard to think about anything else. But starting May 28 we'll have more interesting things to say.
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