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labellementeuseI'm going to Auckland for work placement over the next two weeks, and I stupidly decided a twelve-hour train journey would be nice and scenic (because it's not like I haven't driven between Auckland and Wellington at least twice... or like I won't ever do it again.) Huge mistake: took me 45 minutes to pack my suitcase, 2 hrs to pack my backpack for use on the train, and frigging all day to load crap onto my ipod and mp3 player.
Suitcase
Took me about the same amount of time as the Supernatural pilot, which I rewatched for no reason in particular. I still find it scary even though a) it's really not that scary and b) I've seen it a million billion times and c) Sarah Shahi is permanently on my Most Wanted list. Someday I'll get over being a giant wuss. contents:
- eight squillion pairs of tights, four dresses, one pair of jeans and three t-shirts. I'm sorted.
Backpack
- needles and materials for Ishbel and Grown-Up Booties (slippers) - these are both Ysolda Teague patterns from her book Whimsical Little Knits which I bought in London last year. Infuriatingly, I couldn't find the (VERY EXPENSIVE) seasilk yarn I bought for Ishbel at the same time, bitch bitch moan moan. Anyway, I love Ysolda (my Urchin is not just my favourite hat I've made but possibly the item I've made that I've used most consistently; I must knit another one sometime) so yay for these, although the stocking stitch on the shawl might get a bit boring.
- I'm taking three books on the train - yes, ambitious, but you never know what mood you're going to be in. So I'm taking Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn Dolamore, Black Swan Green by David Mitchell, and Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs by Linda Olsson. MUG is my standard fare, BSG is because I loved Cloud Atlas and all I've read lately is Scott Pilgrim so I felt like I wanted to pick up my literary fiction, and Let Me Blah Blah is because it's the only book I owned that I hadn't read that was published by Penguin New Zealand, and that's where I'm going for work placement. I think it's going to be a thinly fictionalised misery memoir, but the writing is lovely, so I suppose that's a plus?
- Also I'm taking the YA manuscript I'm supposed to be writing a reader's report on.
- sundries: pack of cards, my laptop, two packets of biscuits (shop-bought b/c I ran out of time to bake), a large number of marmite and cheese sandwiches on home-made bread, bag of pick & mix, six mandarins, a block of chocolate, a bottle of water, notebook.
Media
this was THE WORST. my ipod and my mp3 player are both 4g large. my mp3 player is a new cheap piece of rubbish that is perfect for listening to whole albums, etc on, but it pretty crappy for listening to specific songs on/listening to podfic and audiobooks on. my ipod is ancient but perfect for listening to podfic and podcasts on, except there is absolutely no space on it. I also had a whole lot of new music I wanted to take. This is how I eventually shook it out:
1. I copied my standard ipod playlist and deleted a bunch of tracks more or less at random. I shoved a few more on there but tried to keep the new playlist light.
2. Made another ipod playlist for non-music (three Savage Loves, two This American Life's, one Real Time with Bill Maher (the Rachel Maddow one from a few months ago - &Rachel;) and many, many hours of podfic: but mostly J2, which is weird b/c I'm not really reading J2 at the moment. Also, a lot of Sam/Dean. No Dean/Castiel because I couldn't find long stuff, which I got because it's annoying to have to download lots of pieces, although after a podfic gets past an hour and a half I usually end up switching to reading it on the screen.)
3. Carefully edited my mp3 player contents so it's in nice clean albums instead of random songs and episodes of doctor who I had on there. New stuff: Metric (Fantasies), The Kills (Midnight Boom), Mumford & Sons (Sigh No More) who are all new to me as musicians, The Hold Steady (Boys & Girls in America), Tegan & Sara (Sainthood), The Decemberists (Picaresque) which are all new-to-me albums by artists I already know, and a bunch of non-new stuff I was in the mood for: The Killers (Hot Fuss), Death Cab For Cutie (The Photo Album, although I might download Plans before I go too), Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, The Mountain Goats (The Sunset Tree) and a bunch of other stuff that's less discrete and just less interesting. This is a really awkwardly indie list that makes me look super-pretentious, but that's just because you can't see my most-played in itunes (also, I'm watching a lot of SPN lately, which automatically means I have an allergic reaction to their music and start playing a lot of very, very twee shit like Rosy Tin Teacaddy.
ANYWAY THIS ALL TOOK HORRIBLY LONG. Horrible. I'm waiting for my ultra-portable very-huge-hard-drive can-read-fic-play-music-watch-SPN-and-check-emails device over here. ... what's an iPod Touch again?
On the plus side: I have a new Cordelia moodtheme! \o/
Suitcase
Took me about the same amount of time as the Supernatural pilot, which I rewatched for no reason in particular. I still find it scary even though a) it's really not that scary and b) I've seen it a million billion times and c) Sarah Shahi is permanently on my Most Wanted list. Someday I'll get over being a giant wuss. contents:
- eight squillion pairs of tights, four dresses, one pair of jeans and three t-shirts. I'm sorted.
Backpack
- needles and materials for Ishbel and Grown-Up Booties (slippers) - these are both Ysolda Teague patterns from her book Whimsical Little Knits which I bought in London last year. Infuriatingly, I couldn't find the (VERY EXPENSIVE) seasilk yarn I bought for Ishbel at the same time, bitch bitch moan moan. Anyway, I love Ysolda (my Urchin is not just my favourite hat I've made but possibly the item I've made that I've used most consistently; I must knit another one sometime) so yay for these, although the stocking stitch on the shawl might get a bit boring.
- I'm taking three books on the train - yes, ambitious, but you never know what mood you're going to be in. So I'm taking Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn Dolamore, Black Swan Green by David Mitchell, and Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs by Linda Olsson. MUG is my standard fare, BSG is because I loved Cloud Atlas and all I've read lately is Scott Pilgrim so I felt like I wanted to pick up my literary fiction, and Let Me Blah Blah is because it's the only book I owned that I hadn't read that was published by Penguin New Zealand, and that's where I'm going for work placement. I think it's going to be a thinly fictionalised misery memoir, but the writing is lovely, so I suppose that's a plus?
- Also I'm taking the YA manuscript I'm supposed to be writing a reader's report on.
- sundries: pack of cards, my laptop, two packets of biscuits (shop-bought b/c I ran out of time to bake), a large number of marmite and cheese sandwiches on home-made bread, bag of pick & mix, six mandarins, a block of chocolate, a bottle of water, notebook.
Media
this was THE WORST. my ipod and my mp3 player are both 4g large. my mp3 player is a new cheap piece of rubbish that is perfect for listening to whole albums, etc on, but it pretty crappy for listening to specific songs on/listening to podfic and audiobooks on. my ipod is ancient but perfect for listening to podfic and podcasts on, except there is absolutely no space on it. I also had a whole lot of new music I wanted to take. This is how I eventually shook it out:
1. I copied my standard ipod playlist and deleted a bunch of tracks more or less at random. I shoved a few more on there but tried to keep the new playlist light.
2. Made another ipod playlist for non-music (three Savage Loves, two This American Life's, one Real Time with Bill Maher (the Rachel Maddow one from a few months ago - &Rachel;) and many, many hours of podfic: but mostly J2, which is weird b/c I'm not really reading J2 at the moment. Also, a lot of Sam/Dean. No Dean/Castiel because I couldn't find long stuff, which I got because it's annoying to have to download lots of pieces, although after a podfic gets past an hour and a half I usually end up switching to reading it on the screen.)
3. Carefully edited my mp3 player contents so it's in nice clean albums instead of random songs and episodes of doctor who I had on there. New stuff: Metric (Fantasies), The Kills (Midnight Boom), Mumford & Sons (Sigh No More) who are all new to me as musicians, The Hold Steady (Boys & Girls in America), Tegan & Sara (Sainthood), The Decemberists (Picaresque) which are all new-to-me albums by artists I already know, and a bunch of non-new stuff I was in the mood for: The Killers (Hot Fuss), Death Cab For Cutie (The Photo Album, although I might download Plans before I go too), Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, The Mountain Goats (The Sunset Tree) and a bunch of other stuff that's less discrete and just less interesting. This is a really awkwardly indie list that makes me look super-pretentious, but that's just because you can't see my most-played in itunes (also, I'm watching a lot of SPN lately, which automatically means I have an allergic reaction to their music and start playing a lot of very, very twee shit like Rosy Tin Teacaddy.
ANYWAY THIS ALL TOOK HORRIBLY LONG. Horrible. I'm waiting for my ultra-portable very-huge-hard-drive can-read-fic-play-music-watch-SPN-and-check-emails device over here. ... what's an iPod Touch again?
On the plus side: I have a new Cordelia moodtheme! \o/
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Date: 2010-08-22 12:38 am (UTC)Funny thing about Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs; my mother, grandmother, and aunt were all raving about it about a year ago, but I had the exact same suspicion that you do, so I never read it. Er, so I can't really tell you anything useful about it, except that my mother usually has pretty good taste?
I hope things go well!
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Date: 2010-09-25 02:47 am (UTC)