things i have to do tonight:

- figure out everything fun to do in nyc for 5 days and montreal for 7 days, the best inexpensive places to eat, thrift stores, research potentially interesting things like the museum of sex
- make a list of books to bring on the trip and bring padded envelopes to send them away on bookmooch
- rip man with a movie camera & spun & moolaade to my hard drive so that other people can get dvds from greencine while i'm gone
- find my ipod, encode/shrink other videos to rip on it, take all the music off and replace it with new music
- find my headphone splitter
- clean my room because right now it is severely impossible to even find the floor, let alone find stuff i need to bring
- laundry
- pack everything, figure out how to abide by the weird new airline restrictions about 3oz containers in ziplock bags
- dye my hair black and burgundy
- stop by my parents house and pick up a present
- go to trader joe's and pick up food to bring on the flight 'cause it's a really long flight with no food
- pay rent and bills
- remove all the files from my camera to free up space, find batteries, find my extra lenses
- change my location in whrrl & dodgeball and turn off twitter so i don't get 50,000 text messages while i'm gone
- make a list of everybody's phone number in nyc/montreal so i can text message you guys and we can potentially meet up (perhaps you can help with this part)

i've found the universal packing list generator and the art and science of travelling light useful.

i REALLY want to go to the apparat show tonight but i'm feeling too awful. something tells me i'm not going to be sleeping a whole lot tonight either way, which is bad 'cause i'm a terribly light sleeper and have a rough time sleeping on planes, trains, etc.