Passport   [x]
VISA application  [x]
       Returned Passport with VISA [in process]
Appointment for Immunizations [x]
Prescriptions picked up [  ]
Fundraising [?]
Travel currency [  ]
On the ground Itinerary [  ]
Flights booked [x]
Professors notified [x]
Arrangements for dog and car [x]
Packed [  ]

Countdown to Ethiopia: 4 weeks, 1 day

House and NCIS are on the same day at the same time this season....
Why do they hate me?!
I was driven to bustin' out the good old VCR to tape NCIS while i watched House with Nara. I can't do this every week, i don't have decent enough blank vhs tapes to reuse over and over :-(

and the secret ingredient is cyanide!

World-famous chef Julia Childs was actually a spy (along with some other fairly famous people who are really old)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080814/ap_on_go_ot/spies_revealed

I am highly amused :-)

sometimes being patient is really friggen hard...

that is all.

I'm in Maine!
Be back to Bwal'more in a couple of weeks. I plan on trying to bring some cold, Canadian weather with me... i don't know if it'll fit in my suitcase though.

Today, while driving Nara out to the MVA for her license, the odometer in my car clicked over to 50,000 miles; to the tune of Sarah Bareilles' "Many The Miles"
Honest to goodness, complete coincidence :-)

You don't have to own up to it, feel free secretly to simply enjoy the entertainment provided by the link below, but for all Joss Whedon fans (esp. those who enjoyed the muscial Buffy episode and/or Firefly) I URGE... nay INSIST you visit Dr. Horrible's sing-along Blog! As of Sunday July 20th, all 3 of these free web episodes will go bye bye! (Read ( Read more... )

Normally, I'm really impatient. Waiting and feeling like there's nothing I can do to speed things along can be really frustrating for me. Maybe I am still impatient.. but I think I'm learning how beneficial it can be to wait on some things ( Read more... )

I can count a million times
People asking me how I
Can praise You with all that I've gone through
The question just amazes me
Can circumstances possibly
Change who I forever am in You
Maybe since my life was changed
Long before these rainy days
It's never really ever crossed my mind
To turn my back on you, oh Lord
My only shelter from the storm
But ( Read more... )

one more day, then this week will be over ( Read more... )