Packing, packing, and more packing

Le bah.

So, I got the boxes sent out for shipment back since the price of shipping by sea costs more than shipping as excess luggage by air. Weird, I know. But it's apparently got something to do with the customs chaos that goes on in Malaysia. Lots of people try to smuggle weird things in, according to agents, so the annoyance of customs bucks the price up. Joy. Course, if you're shipping more than four boxes, it'd probably be worth sea freight.

At any rate, I got the boxes back and Sarah G. was kind enough to come over for the third time to help me with the repacking. Fixing it so that each box was 32kg or less was something hard, let me tell you. And two girls hauling boxes onto a bloody small scale, it's something hard, too. I think I might have thrown my back some. Good thing I have a Friday appointment with my chiropractor.

Now all I have to do is sort out the rest of my room, give away stuff, return some things to Mic's aunt and uncle, and pack, pack, pack. Some overwhelming when I start thinking more than one step at a time. And I tend to have some jumbled thoughts too. Lists are currently my friends.

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Went to Folsom Street Fair with Sarah and other IEEC folks on Sunday. There were dressed people, semi-dressed people, and not dressed people; leather, feathers, corsets, lace; latex, collars, leashes, make-up. Surprisingly, I was pretty mellow about everything. Apparently, being in San Francisco long enough desensitizes an individual to reacting too badly to nudity and kink. Helps that my first semester was the most culturally shocking for me. No surprise considering that three out of four classes my first semester had the word sex in their titles. And I've seen so many educational videos with nude people talking, being prodded, poked and measured, and having sex, that I've become a little jaded about the entire thing. Now, if I actually stumbled across a family member that was going around in the buff and/or having sex, it'd be another matter.

Coincidentally, I actually bumped into Tung Shen who's in the Bay Area at the fair. Big fair, many people, familiar face found. Ironic considering that I lost my buddies several times in the crowd.