When you are a native New Yorker, you bring the city with you wherever you go; like the books I lug around, the pages are part of my skin.
As mentioned (above), those cloth tie-dyed napkins that I've been lugging around are clearly older than my one year rule, but so much older that it seems sacrilegious to toss them.
No longer do I lug around the ball and chain of constantly having to dress up common life choices with metaphors both banal and mixed.
Even when I started half-heartedly to use iCal, Apple's personal-calendar program for the Mac, I lugged around the Filofax in case I needed — I don't know — the address book?
Plus (I tell/sell myself) it gave me an opportunity to sort the seed packets I lug around most of the year with the secateurs and small thermos flask.
Instead, I lug around the Targus Spruce EcoSmart on a daily basis.
I've lugged around everything from massive ThinkPads to iPad Pros and I've always found myself stuck in one of two situations – the laptops that made the most sense were too heavy to be comfortably portable and the tablets and ultraportables I used, including the Surface Pro, offered too much of a performance trade-off to warrant swapping from a full desktop device.
In 2006, when I shot wedding videos and corporate documentaries, I carried a big fancy Canon GLX, a professional camera that I would lug around in a heavy, hard case that held a shotgun microphone, lights with varying intensities, cassette tapes to record footage, chargers and all kinds of other bells and whistles.
Having spent the better part of my student days paying excess baggage fees I could ill afford for the books I had to lug around, I am concerned about the increase in estimated passenger weight.
Although I begged my sister for a Fuji Mini for my last birthday, thinking it'd be easier to lug around, I wound up preferring the larger 210 format, which my friend Alan brings along on all of our social outings.
No wonder I felt fatigued recently: I was lugging around the equivalent of three healthy newborns.
