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It's weird, inconvenient and kinda sad all at the same time, to have sold off or given away so much of my furniture and household items
#moving #packing #ParingDown #melancholy

I don't think of myself as someone who gets attached to possessions, but I really liked a lot of my stuff. It all served me well and gave me pleasure to see and use. Now there are empty spaces where everything was #change

And I still have 12 days to live here without them haha

Today by me in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald - I recount a frantic mission to get my cabin luggage down to 7kg for a budget airline flight from Serbia.

(I slipped in a reference to Blake's 7, and was pleasantly surprised that the editor didn't remove it. What a classic TV series.)

Dash out to pick up a print copy, and I'll share the link here when it goes online.

It is Going to Be a Long Day

It is about 7:30am. My work day starts at 9:00am. My vacation kicks off 8.5 hours later at 5:30pm.

It is going to be a long day. A really… really… long… day.

After that? I have to pack. I have to make a stash of protein bars to get me through the first couple of days in Florida. I have to figure out the camera situation… charge up the Z5 and put on the 40mm lens, fill up a bag with rolls of film, load a roll into Dad’s Pentax K1000. I’ve decided that Dad’s camera is coming with me this time. Normally I would take my Nikon FG-20, but this time I think I want to take the camera that hurled me down the film rabbit hole a few years ago. Yeah. I am weird.

Anyway. Yesterday I bitched about how the Bruins suck now. Last night they beat Ottawa and jumped three places in the standings. Not only are they back in a playoff spot, but they above the wild card spots and back into third in the division. What a world, huh? We’ll see how long this lasts. The standings are pretty tight these days.

Okay. Time to get the ball rolling on this Friday. Vacation is less than 10 hours away.

I am about to close my luggage yet another time, closing yet another chapter of my life in yet another European city.

While #packing, in the last few days, I realized that I have had the incredible privilege of #moving on an average every six months (🤯) in the last four years, and I also took many life-changing trips in between.

The cities I call(ed) home are #Turin, #Venice, #Grenoble, #Berlin, Riva Ligure (#Sanremo), and now #Tallinn.

It is so hard to keep up with the huge amount of feelings and inputs this kind of life entails, especially while being in my 20s.

Still, I am glad, immensely grateful, and partly even thorn, because I would never have had any of this if it wasn’t for my #privilege.