Matt Sullivan

I'm now in the middle of last, last minute preparations; it's just after 10 PM here, and I'm heading for the airport in, oh, about six hours. All I have left to do is pack. That will involve five minutes of throwing clothes into a backpack, thirty minutes of trying to decide what books to bring along (why is it that every time I go away, what I really want to read is either in hardback or those oversized softbacks which are entirely an inappropriate size for travel?), spend far too much time copying music onto my iPod, and then repacking my bag because I always figure I've forgotten something vital -- underwear, toothbrush, passport ...