It's official; I'm moving to Chicago!

[azuki_pie]

As of this Friday I have told my current employers that I am leaving in 3 weeks. They took it surprisingly well. In my head I had them going into shock and basically being very mean about the whole thing, but I was quite pleasantly surprised by their reaction. They even went as far to say that they thought I had been extremely professional in

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[starofpersia]

Wait...are you moving to Chicago, then?

[azuki_pie]

Yes, yes I am moving to Chicago. I'll be in your neck of the woods by 11/17 (or at least that is my goal)!

[serrano]

Yes I agree--wait, you're going to Chicago, or to Kyoto, or what? Congratulations, whatever it is!

A good trick is: limit yourself to what you'd pack for a two week trip. No more. It's always nice to have blister band-aids and liquid skin, but you can also put duct tape on blisters and that works just fine (it eliminates friction in the same way a good band-aid does), and the same theory can be applied to ordinary life. Don't bring a teakettle when you've already got a sauce pan that's perfectly fine for boiling water in :)

[azuki_pie]

Chicago is where I am headed!

And I totally see your point about keeping it to two weeks BUT I won't have any money to spend on things for a while once I get there so it's going to be better to take as much as I can now so I don't have to buy things once I'm in the city unless I have to (clothes for various kinds of jobs, teaching materials, personal products I use that I already have a good supply of, etc). But you're right that if I try to keep to a two week rotation of such clothes etc I will be fine.