Philosophia

The most hassling thing about going to university interstate (although some remind me that ACT is technically within NSW) is deciding what items to take with you. I admit, I’ve been used to a life of luxury, I have two rooms all to myself: one with a bed, the usual wardrobe things and one with the books and the computer and the TV. How that will all change.

I invite you all to look at what will be my home sweet home for the next 4 years:

I’m hoping that the furniture is included. In case you can’t make out the measurements, it’s 4.635 m by 2.705 m.

So I’ve started compiling a list of things to take with me, but it’s been hard sorting the essentials from the unnecessary-but-oh-so-necessary-to-my-material-happiness.

The list so far goes:

• Comic books. Too precious to say goodbye to.
• Art history books. Sort of necessary considering that’s what I will be studying
• My PS2 with a TV. That way, I can watch TV, play DVD’s, play video games, and don’t need to take my CD player(4-in-1 function, yeah!)
• Vivienne Westwood handbag. For street cred or something.
• Since I can’t take all the novels I have, I will just take the “essentials”, which are Franz Kafka, Salinger, Eugenides, Coetzee, and most of my classics. Otherwise I’ll group books by a categories and take them down on a rotational basis.
• I will have to do the same with clothes (summer and winter). Or maybe I’ll just count out exactly enough for 7 days a week.
• CD’s. Or if I’m really short on room, I’ll just transfer them all into digital files.
• My computer, although I’ll probably have no internet.
• Acoustic guitar, the electric seems too much of a hassle.
• Clean underwear.

I think I’ll start packing in February.