Well, I've Done the Important Part of the Packing!

The last time I talked to my mother on the phone, she mentioned that it's pretty likely that while I'm out there there's not going to be a whole heck of a lot to do much of the time, and that I should, and I quote, "bring a book." To which I replied, "Mom, it's me. I'll probably bring about a dozen. Don't I usually do that anyway?"

I have nothing else packed and pretty much haven't done a damn thing to get ready to go, otherwise, but I did go through the Book Piles and pick out some reading to take with me. Here's my list as it stands at the moment: Tricky Business by Dave Barry (assuming I don't finish it before I leave, which it's fairly likely I will), Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, Sir Apropos of Nothing by Peter David, Sins of the Father (a Buffy novel) by Christopher Golden, The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer, Farscape: The Illustrated Season 2 Companion by Paul Simpson and Ruth Thomas, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon, and The End of Time by Julian Barbour. I was thinking I might bring a Blake's 7 fanzine with me, too, but for once I'm not sure I'll actually be up for the usual B7 angst levels.

I hope that's enough. Of course, it's probably way more than enough; I'm usually very bad at guesstimating how long any particular book is going to take for me to read. Anybody want to place any bets on how far I'm actually going to get through this stack?