Avery Crush Puny Passport Officials

[chantico]

My passport should be in hand come Friday. My initial reaction was less cheering jubliance, more "Good, now I can finally attend to the 19294 other things on my list" but today I'm feeling much better about it and my prospects in general. Not quite up to the everything is fine level yet, but moving there. My textbook I need before going over is also ordered, my final loan submissions go in this friday, my plane tickets are here and my list is rapidly shortening. What I have left to do: get my Visa, organize my monies, pack, figure out where I'm going to get luggage, find out how I'm getting to Minnesota exactly, fix up my laptop, and spend every day praying that they won't go through my bag and toss my watercolor paints at the airport for being dangerous. I'm not bringing my oils for the above reason; I know people who've lost hundreds of dollars worth of paints on flights. Also, are external hard drives okay? These things, I do not know.

Other news is sparse. I'm feeling violently antisocial, which is good considering I have three long days all on my lonesome while deadmanwade and new roommate do the GenCon thing. The shwag I really wanted to get from there is already acquired-- yay Changeling book! I'm really, really, really enjoying it so far. It's different from old Changeling, to be sure, but in my own opinion, not mangled like some of the updates have been. But then, I liked the new Mage.

What else . . . Sunday is my birthday. I'm not sure what I'm doing fully, though I know I'm heading up to Indy for the day. I *was* going to get a pass into GenCon, but prices are stupid high for a day pass. Maybe the zoo, *definitely* the IMAX Harry Potter. If people are interested in going to that with me, I'll post times.

As far as further celebrations go, I'm going to wait until I have my going-away/birthday party, tentatively scheduled for Sunday Sept. 2nd. You'll hear more about this next week, as I have to make final arrangements.

September is dangerously close.

Comments

[selenya.livejournal.com]

OOh, Harry Potter sounds good to G and I! How about lunch and HP? *loves*

[tooth-and-claw.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what we're doing for lunch, but HP sounds great! I'll call you guys later tonight/tommorrow with some more details . . . what's your #

[selenya.livejournal.com]

seven six five four six one five two eight seven. ;)

[selenya.livejournal.com]

HP isn't playing at the Indy Imax... Was that the one you were thinking of?

[tooth-and-claw.livejournal.com]

Er? It says it is on the Kerasotes page-- 3:50 PM is the time I'm thinking of going.

[selenya.livejournal.com]

OH! Different Imax!

Yay! They have the new one open!

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

For super cheap luggage, try Big Lots. If you are wondering about what you can carry on the planes, call the airline that is flying you to Italy. I did that and found out that yes my CDs will NOT be destroyed when going through security. :)