Well, today I must pack.

I've decided NOT to take the SitCom Chic with me to work on, seeing as I'm not going to have tons of time. So I dug out some sock yarn that had been hanging around and am taking it as "emergency"/"bored with all other projects" stuff.

I am taking the two newest socks and probably the Kureyon sock and the lace ribbon scarf. (I'm almost done with the Gentleman's Winter socks so they will probably be finished today).

I'm taking a ball of Trekking XXL in one of the older colors...I don't remember the number but I bought it at the same time as the Neapolitan color. This yarn is a black, green, pink, and white combination that makes me think of licorice allsorts. (It's the one I wound off when I was having problems with breaks and damage in the Neapolitan - I was afraid this one had got buggy as well, but it had not.

For my other "extra" project, I'm not sure...I dug out some Socka Disco I bought a long time ago for mittens (sockyarn mittens work fine where I live; usually you don't even really NEED mittens). But I've got other sockyarns tucked away and I can't decide what I want.

(I am not at all counting on being able to buy any yarn since the Powers that Be indirectly killed off the nice little yarn shop in the downtown of my parents' town, and I'm expecting there not to be any in Winona when I go there).

Books are also an issue. I do want to take that book on the American Chestnut I referred to, and maybe take and finish The American Senator (unless I finish it this afternoon instead) or take the Pickwick Papers (which I stalled out in this spring) and re-start that. And probably a couple of mystery novels for good measure.

I tend to be of the opinion that it's hard to take "too many" books with one on vacation. Even though I am going places where books should be readily available. Books are one of my "comfort items" - even over and above having something to read, the physical presence of a book or two that is yet-unread in my luggage comforts me, it tells me "Even if the train stalls out for many hours on the tracks, you will have something to do" or "Even if you wind up having to sit somewhere with many irritating people around you, you will have some means of escape."

I am not good at traveling light. (I suppose that's one of the numerous ways in which I am kind of a neo-Victorian: I could easily imagine traveling with a steamer trunk for all of my necessaries and a large valise to house my books and needlework while on the road.)

Still dealing with a particular demanding person, though I think the weight of evidence is on my side, it's my experience that demanding people tend not to give up. I wish this person would, though, it's sucking a lot of emotional energy now, and I don't exactly have a lot of that at the moment.