All the travel I’ve been doing for cons this past year has turned me into a packing expert. I’m going off to my mom’s for a few days, and packing feels super-simple when I don’t have to hassle with all of the stuff I bring to a con’s table. I just grab a few days of clothes, roll them up, and stick them in a duffel bag; put the computer, an iPad, and my pills in the computer bag, and I’m pretty much done. A day or two before the last minute, even – I did most of that last night.
Of course, it helps that “putting an iPad in the computer bag” is substituting for “go to the bookstore/library, get enough books to amuse myself for the plane trip, put them in carry-on bag”. That took a lot of time and space. Nowadays I tend to do my book shopping sitting in the departure lounge via Amazon.Though I think I’m gonna poke at Amazon now while I’m thinking about it.
oh god Amazon’s recommended list has Iain Banks’s book about a guy dying from cancer on it. The one he started writing before he knew he had terminal cancer. I do not think I’m ready for this one. Not on the airplane.