T Minus 3 Days

it's almost time to hit the road ... only three days till my 32 hour drive to arizona begins! at least 25 of those hours will be spent on the same road -- I-40 -- which stretches all the way from knoxville, TN to flagstaff. i'll be passing over the smoky mountains while the leaves are changing and through 3 new states i've never seen -- arkansas, oklahoma, and new mexico -- all of which i'm sure offer beautiful, entertaining views from I-40. at least it will be easy to garnish up some frustration, the better to belt out 32 hours of punk ballads with. i'm criming my sister's car while she travels to australia and new zealand (as tara said: very piratey) which is covered in hippie bumper stickers. i've actually approached her car to find strangers standing behind it, reading the stickers for entertainment while sipping coffee or eating ice cream cones.

BUT she did let me remove the michigan sticker -- no self-respecting southern college football fan could allow that, especially after their recent (& deserved) ass-kickings. this was after i emptied it of all the science books, plastic beads, sticks with sentimental value, and purple rubber gloves. who knows.

i hate packing, so usually i wait until the last moment and throw everything i like into a bag while i'm combing my hair on the way out the door. because of this, i usually end up with a bag full of fun clothes that clash miserably and just wear my sister's sweatpants. however, i am doing a little bit of planning ahead -- i've already started packing things and i still have 3 days !! (more a product of my unemployment than any type of burning initiative) -- and its kind of a fun game to see just how much you can smash into a small space. side note: when i start complaining that i somehow made it to arizona with only a small fraction of my bikini collection, remind me that the rest of it is tucked into the open spaces of my spongebobopoly game.