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Aug. 22nd, 2009 07:01 pmProductive day, but not out of the woods yet. I'm up to around 1,500 words on getting the PhD proposal out of note-skeleton form - mostly what I'm doing or have done, but I have a lot to write/distill yet on what other people out there are doing. I'm glad I have Zotero as a research tool to help me with that side of things, though - it makes searching through my collection of papers and notes about them a heck of a lot easier.
I have my travel authorization from the Department of Homeland Security sorted out now, so that's one less thing to worry about. Will be borrowing scales from parents on Monday so that I know just how much I can pack. Not sure just what I'll end up packing just yet, but there's definitely going to be a few things staying with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wolfwitch when I leave, so that my eventual move will be that little bit smaller.
Still, two questions about that for those playing along at home. Firstly, where's a good place to get bubble wrap locally for packing fragile things? Secondly, on a more long-term speculatory note, what kind of ballpark figure could I expect to pay if I was wanting to get a shipping container to move a lot of my stuff from New Zealand to the U.S.? It's more likely that I'll be selling/giving away a bunch of stuff and rebuying in the States, and maybe putting some stuff in long-term storage at least initially, but I figure that some people out there might have an idea about moving big things across large distances.
I have my travel authorization from the Department of Homeland Security sorted out now, so that's one less thing to worry about. Will be borrowing scales from parents on Monday so that I know just how much I can pack. Not sure just what I'll end up packing just yet, but there's definitely going to be a few things staying with
wolfwitch when I leave, so that my eventual move will be that little bit smaller.Still, two questions about that for those playing along at home. Firstly, where's a good place to get bubble wrap locally for packing fragile things? Secondly, on a more long-term speculatory note, what kind of ballpark figure could I expect to pay if I was wanting to get a shipping container to move a lot of my stuff from New Zealand to the U.S.? It's more likely that I'll be selling/giving away a bunch of stuff and rebuying in the States, and maybe putting some stuff in long-term storage at least initially, but I figure that some people out there might have an idea about moving big things across large distances.
