Amazingly enough, the turning on of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN did not create a black hole underneath Switzerland.
...yet.
In any case, I managed to get my packing done, and the movers came yesterday and took everything I'm keeping away. Now the house looks strange and unreal and not like it's somewhere I ever lived, and while part of me is freaked out, the rest of me is just ready to leave. Which I do, in three days. Yee, as they say, haw.
Of course I still have to put everything that's coming with me in a suitcase. But I suppose if I could get the rest of it to a manageable point, I can do the last little bit. I'm so excited I can barely stand it. I miss my friends like crazy. And I'm so very, very much looking forward to Spain.
In part because of the Looking Forward To Spain, I went to see Vicky Cristina Barcelona tonight with my friend S. It's about two girls called Vicky and Cristina who go to Barcelona. Straightforward titles make me happy. ANYWAY. The actress who played Vicky looked like Mom when she was my age to a really frightening extent. There's one scene where she's sitting by a mirror and it looked exactly like a photo I have of her in a kimono from like 1973 or something.
It was good to feel a Happy Remembering Mom moment instead of a Freaky Remembering Mom moment, like the one from Wednesday where I found some mini-cassette-tape things from her job at CSO and listened to them because I am a masochist and heard her voice for the first time since she died. She was talking about pipes. It was all very strange.
Anyway, Barcelona. Barcelona will be great, but I am even more looking forward to Madrid, though I have no idea why. It just looks like an interesting place. I'm pondering stopping in Sevilla for a night or two before going to Lisbon, just to break up the journey. I guess we'll see.
THREE DAYS. \o/
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