done today:

[fox]

-- balanced checkbook. (once you get started, you can't stop! also, i genuflect before the inventors of duplicate checks and online banking. the old way of balancing things, with the paper statements and the cancelled checks if you were lucky and the math? ugh. the new way, with the online statement and the carbons? yay.)
-- paid bills. (all of them! i am in debt to no one, muahahahaha.)
-- registered to vote in ohio. (anyone with a legitimate reason to register in a battleground state is hereby urged to do so.)
-- filled out absentee ballot application.
-- completed paperwork to be sent to accounts manager to maybe process some student loan action. (the accounts manager's name is Annabeth [ths is not her real first name] Ledger [this is her real last name]. seems very appropriate, in a sort of old-fashioned english or welsh way. like this is Tom the Groceries, who manages the store; and that's David the Book, who sells books; and over here is Annabeth the Ledger, who takes care of the accounts. i find it very satisfying.)
-- discovered i don't have enough stamps. (so i'm off to get some. packing will recommence when i return.)