j-ster: oh no. In fact, I accumulated close to nothing during that last bout of residence (having gone the exact same weeding process 2 or 3 times during the past decade surely helped me weighs the pros and cons in acquiring any new object)… This time though, I had to get rid of an entire, fully furnished, apartment. Which involved both a dozen crates worth of crap I recently had to get out of the Cambridge storage where they were sitting (completely coincidental timing) and several tonnes of antique furniture. Truth be told, I probably didn’t have to wipe it all out, it’s just a choice I made… and should make any further decisions about my life that much easier to take.

As for the speakers and amp (good memory btw :-P), I decided to keep ‘em at the last minute. At least until September. I leased them to a friend and, when I pop by Paris again in Sept (to defend my MSc. thesis), will figure out whether they shall follow me to wherever I’m headed or just stay with her. If chances has it and I end up living within a 2000 miles radius from Paris, I definitely don’t want to have to go through the same hoops to get my mewsik going again…