note to self: when your life starts looking like it should be part of NASA you know you're ready to leave

so,  its t-minus 2 days here till Finland.  There is a lot less running around than I was originally anticipating, I think its because it still doesn't feel like its actually going to happen.  I have been looking at different places to go before school starts and so far I have come up with some rough ideas of places that aren't to far away yet still far enough away that most people wouldn't want to go on a weekend.  Poland, Czech Republic, or the Ukraine to name a few.  We'll see if I am even awake with the time change long enough to unpack let alone travel.  

Speaking of traveling to other countries, I have recently learned that I will not be traveling completely alone!  My comrade Jordan gave me the most useful/fantastic/hilarious parting gift that I have ever received.  His name is Potter, and he is indeed an otter hand puppet.  Not only has he become part of our family already, sneaking up behind people, lurking in corners, terrorizing the cat, and holding notes for family members who have left the house, I have also decided that he will be traveling with me on trains so I will have someone to converse with.  Now, for those of you that think this is crazy, which it is, once you get a good look at Potter you will completely change your mind.  He's practically human thats how fantastic he is.

I have effectively vacuum sealed every article of clothing that I am taking with me, and along with it looking much like the freeze dried food that I used to enjoy at OMSI so much, it is also completely waterproof!  Bring on the infomercials!  But besides being packed I feel completely unprepared, I keep waiting to realize that I have forgotten something so huge that I am completely screwed without it.  Like my passport, or my head.  I thankfully have checked both of them regularly and they are both in check.  

I am also taking it as a good omen that my favorite handicapped table was open today at starbucks, minus the old woman that I pushed out of the way to get to it.

heihei!