Things That Are More Fun Than Unpacking:
-Facebook
-Blogs
-Walking to 7-11
-Making lists
-Sleeping
-Almost anything

The Hardest Parts of Unpacking:
-Learning you have more crap than you thought (and yes, it is mostly crap when you're moving)
-Finding spaces for everything
-Organizing things
-Cleaning before putting stuff away
-Having to buy new stuff to organize
-Motivation to actually just do it
-Finding things while in the limbo of being half unpacked

Whatever

Things I Do When I'm Bored:
-Make jokes, especially ones that are inappropriate to the situation
-Watch tv, especially hulu
-Cook
-Eat (more frequent than cooking)
-Read food blogs
-Read tabloid type things
-Get ahead in homework (or often just do homework on time)
-Read a book
-Research something random
-Txtmsg someone
-Call mom
-Play the piano
-Contemplate learning to play the guitar
-Grocery shop
-Take a nap
-Go to the gym
-Think about going to the gym
-Make lists

mid-move inventory

Pros of Moving:
-filter through possessions and purge extra belongings
-potential from change
-cleanliness
-reminder of how temporary everything is
-no need to lift weights
-opportunity to reorganize things
-the puzzle of how best to move things, and then again on where to put them away

Cons of Moving:
-not fun
-strenuous
-not enough room for just one carload ever (not me, anyway)
-(with shared spaces) where to put things that won't get in roommates' way
-not enough room in new place (at least until space is familiar enough to figure it out)
-put everything in a box only to take it back out
-the soreness of lifting things that are heavy and carrying them around
-sore hands from lifting boxes and other such things
-forgetting where you packed things
-having to put everything you owned into boxes and realizing how much you have and yet how much you don't have

Benjamin Franklin Style

Things To Do When Without Electricity:
-Light candles
-Tell scary stories
-Have a (pseudo-)seance
-Go to bed early
-Go somewhere else
-Notice that people tend to look creepy instead of pretty when holding candles lower than eye-level
-Panic
-Realize that you don't have lives outside of electronic devices (TV, radio, computer)
-Play games in the dark
-Theorize about life pre-electricity
-Be grateful for other modern conveniences that haven't suddenly disappeared (plumbing, cars, battery-powered devices)
-Plan what to do when electricity returns
-Try to get over phobia of lighting matches
-Eat all the ice cream in the freezer

Things Which Cannot Be Done Without Electricity:
-Work (in my case, at least-- all my work is done on a computer)
-Homework
-Read once it's dark (candle light isn't sufficient)
-Keeping the house's temperature controlled (no AC or heat)
-Packing (once it's dark, at least)
-Staying up late

Transition

Method of the BYU Student Move:
-Make sure you have a place to live (contracts end usually a week to two weeks before contracts for the next year begin)
-Find people who can help you move heavy stuff
-Don't put anything away for a week or two before you move, using the excuse that you'll just have to pack it anyway
-Don't go grocery shopping for a couple weeks before you move, and eat down your pantry--especially perishables (which makes for interesting meals and dramatically increases cravings to eat out)
-Find packing boxes somewhere, like Smith's or Macey's
-Hope you're the first one to move into the new place. Extreme hope.
-Put off actually packing until a day or two before the move date
-If you're lucky, have a few days to move all your stuff and just move a carload at a time, reducing the need for as many boxes (unpack boxes each time you bring a carload)
-Clean for move-out cleaning check
-Move everything into new apartment
-Arrange to go home for at least a weekend before everything is unpacked
-Feel awkward around new roommates