Where is the time going?

We just received our staging packet in the mail today! This is really exciting and provides details about the first couple of days of our newest adventure. Until then though, my life is going to be crazy!

'Why crazy?' you ask? I am leaving on Saturday to go to Columbia, SC to finish the work on my thesis. Other than leaving all my friends at work, I'm not that sad about leaving Jacksonville. But this thesis is killing me. I've only been working on this thing four-ever! (For those of you keep score at home, that is literally four years.) So, I'm preparing for thesisville until I leave on the 9pm Amtrak to Columbia. Once there (4am) I'll work my tail off to get a defensible thesis together and get it defended. Which will (hopefully) be on one of the two days my adviser has open in June, the 19th or 20th. That date range works really well for me, because after I pass (thinking positive) I'll have a day to two to get corrections made, get it printed, and submitted to the graduate school. Then, about the 28th, two days before we leave, I'll go home to pack for the next two years of my life. That's right, two days for two years.

Rachel has agreed/is being forced to take care of everything else. Selling our car, packing our stuff for storage, moving us out of our apartment, finalizing bills, packing up for Jamaica, and the five million other things that need to be done.

So, I'm going to be a basket case for the next three weeks. Then I'm going to get dumped into a totally new environment, culture, and language. That will bring a whole new set of challenges.

Seriously though, I couldn't be more excited.