Why this blog is here:
Kaddee, my beloved partner of 10 years, and I are moving from Seattle to Cairo for 2 years starting sometime in August 2006.
Kaddee was offered a visiting professorship at The American University in Cairo.
This weblog, and hers (coming RSN) are here to track our mundane, every days lives preparing for the move, and living in, Cairo.
Including all THE PREP required for the trip.
For just a little taste of that, stop looking at your computer for a second.
Take a look around you. Assuming you are at home, look at every single thing you see and realize that every last bit of it must fit into one of 3 categoris
- Sell
- Ship
- Store
Everything. That coffee mug. The books on the shelf. Everything on the walls. The cat/dog/ferret. The knick-knacks. (Or as a friend refers to them “shit-knacks”). The smoking monkey you got for Christmas. All of it. Every last bit of it.
I find myself looking at everything as I go about my day: Do I bring this? That has to come with us. Can I get one of those once I get to Cairo? Will it be cheaper or more expensive over there or perhaps not available? I am not paying to ship that
I don’t sleep so well anymore.
Anyway, all that is how I got here and came to start this blog.
Occasionally it might even be interesting or amusing, insh’allah. Whether you are laughing with me or at me, doesn’t really matter.