Long love

I have a somewhat love-hate relationship with packing for a journey.
On the one hand I love to flush out my cupboard and work on a purge of sorts to filter out clothes I won't need or wear anymore and every time before a long journey especially one for home I end up with a big lump of clothes to recycle or give away and I feel my almirah heaving a sigh of relief at the sudden unburdening.

On the other hand it's always a bit tedious to often find a hodgepodge cluster of assorted clothing that won't be coming in use anymore this season and need be washed, dried, ironed, folded and stacked into the darker recesses of the cupboard only to be unwrapped next summer which is a way off.

I've just got done putting a second instalment of clothes in my drier and I'll get on with the ironing, folding and stacking first thing tomorrow morning for I won't have too long before I leave for another timezone.
Now about packing, it's something of a checklist of all the clothes, shoes, underclothing, clean socks, makeup, gifts, gadgets, chargers that runs in your head and there are still something left unchecked, viz., music.
Most important in fact. How does one undertake a 7 hour journey without music is beyond me, and when it's music on a long flight such it's always got to be a mix, for sometimes I love to nap or doze off to music and it's at these times I like something with steady beats, even bass, rhythmic drumming and little to no vocals.
Post metal, stoner rock, psychedelic rock and even Lo-fi jazz or jazz hip hop do the trick, so there's got to be a folder for that.
When I'm not particularly sleepy or when I'm in that initial travel zone I'm impartial towards all kinds of metal. A sort of aural mayhem is what I desire in the form of Doom, thrash, atmospheric (I'm a sucker for beauty and beast vocals), death (I can never travel without Dethklok), or any orgy of mad music that ranges from electric metal tempo to power is fine by me.

I'll see what all I can cram into my headphones tomorrow and update on that.
There are a lot of new metal bands I've discovered, though I don't know where I can download them from but I shall try.

Another thing most vital during travel is reading material, for one cannot listen to music for 7 hours and for whatever reason I don't like watching movies on a flight on that tiny monitor in front of me.
I mean yes it's personal and there's a range of movies and the like but I just don't seem to enjoy them as much, though I must confess I've watched some most anticipated movies while traveling on flights; longer ones that is. Some that've been almost 18 hours long. Yeah, how annoying!

So reading material.. and about that I can safely say I'm covered.
I'm on the last leg of 'house of chains' and I've all the books I need to read for the next couple months on my iPad so that's pretty much no problem.
If I don't sleep much I'll probably finish 'house of Chains' tomorrow night, and let me just say how much I look forward to that.

Right, so I've ticked all the boxes on my mental checklist I now rest assured with just an hours worth of work for tomorrow after which I'm travel bound.

I do hate such long travels, the mundanity of it all.
The getting into lines for checking in, for security, for immigration, for boarding the flight.
Lines, lines, lines..fuck lines!