I was hoping that I'd have a ticket by now.
Maybe tonight. I don't know. I think you need the visa number before you can confirm the ticket, and in that case I'll have to wait a little longer. ... How did it get to be Thursday already?
I have glasses, and they are giving me a hard time. My eyes are having a REALLY hard time adjusting. I feel like I don't see as well with the glasses on. Then, when I try to take them off to see better, I get terrible headaches. Yesterday I got a headache from trying to write on my computer for more than an hour. My peripheral vision is not doing so well. TV especially gives me a headache. I feel dizzy because of the concave or convex lense... things are different shapes.
Though I haven't run into any doors lately, which I used to do with considerable frequency. ^^; So maybe they aren't the wrong shapes, haha.
Anyway I feel like I'm fogging up like when I try to learn a new computer program, or a new computer system. Nothing really seems to make sense and I can't process certain things. I don't know which is better, either. Everybody keeps telling me tough it out, and that's what I'll try, but my departure in 10 days does not make it easy to do. I don't have much time to keep toughing it out, if it turns out that they really are not what I need.
But then again, I'm sure all hell would not break loose if I just didn't wear them. And I should probably start trusting doctors, and getting over my own ideas of how things should work. I mean I know I'm going to ignore the foot doctor when he says "don't wear flip flops", so maybe I should compromise and listen to this doctor when he says "wear the glasses".
Anyway I'm mostly disappointed, because true to form, I thought this would be a magic fix, and it definitely isn't. It's surprising how often I think about things like that. ^^; Embarrassing, kind of, too.
Anyway, today is August 20, which means that I have about ten days until I leave. I sent my plane ticket coordinator an email that said that my earliest date of departure was August 30. I don't know if she'll stick to that or not, but I don't know why she wouldn't. I had a dream last night that they booked the ticket for the 17th, which obviously wouldn't work, and shows how sincerely my subconscious is not registering the passing of time. This is the last day of girl's group at the Women's Center, too, so I'm going to take my camera in and get pictures of my girls and the center. I hope they don't mind. Next week at the center is supposed to be very relaxed. They are painting and cleaning, doing grunt work mostly, and I can stop by but I'm not on a schedule or anything. That actually worked out WONDERFULLY for my Chicago trip, which I should be making next week sometime, so I can get my visa and HANG OUT WITH JEN. :D I'm looking forward to it--especially because I found a plane ticket for 155. Say whaaat. :D
Anyhow, if I get my visa number tonight, which is Korean Friday, I should be able to leave on Saturday afternoon, and spend three days. Now I don't know if this will actually happen, but its what I'm hoping for, anyway. I don't know how hard it will be to get an interview at the Consulate.
There are other things I'm planning to do... Like BUY A CAMERA!! Woo! I'm interested in the Canon G10, which I've got my heart set on pretty seriously. It's a splurge for me, but I've been assured (by a gentleman at Best Buy) that it will last me five years. And this time, I think the quality will be enough for me to actually want to keep it five years down the road. My brother has agreed to buy my old one. I'm VERY excited for a new camera. I really want to get some great photos from Korea. My Japan photos turned out magnificently, and I had this dinky little 35mm that had NO features what so ever.
I definitely think that I will be opening another blog for my Korea adventures. It can be 100% more professional, while still giving friends and family a chance to read about what I'm up to. It can, you know, be a "blog" instead of a journal.
Part of me really wants to take a day trip to Lake Superior before I leave. Part of me thinks that this is an imperative part of being "right with the world" before I go anywhere. I don't know if I can do it. I mean, I would want to go to Eagle Harbor, but I wouldn't have enough time for that. Duluth and Split Rock would have to suffice. I don't have the excuse "I don't have money for that", but rather my excuse is "I don't know if my mom's car would ever forgive me--or if I could even borrow it for a whole day." Sadly, mom does not want to come with me. :(
We've been having some nice violent weather here. Tornadoes twice in the past two weeks. One when I was ON MY BIKE that decided to touch down close to me, and this time one that touched down in Minneapolis during girls group yesterday. I heard the sirens go off--kind of--because we were dancing. Now in my head I thought "That is a tornado siren, a very low one, but it is a tornado siren. Should I stop everyone and alarm the girls? No. There are people here that are older than me and probably know better what to do. Besides, there are other people in charge." Then Vicky came in and told us to stop playing and go somewhere else, this is after the sirens went through, and I think even after the tornado touched down. ^^; I felt kind of like an idiot. However, I do know that alarming 10 children old enough to know that something is wrong, but not old enough to be calm about it, is a BAD IDEA. I also know (from my last bicycle tornado encounter) that they pull up the sirens on the whole city when there is a touch down anywhere. And, well... it didn't seem like we really had a basement to go to. So.. I figured there was no point in freaking out. THEN OF COURSE I SEE THAT THE ROOF WAS RIPPED OFF OF A STORE IN MINNEAPOLIS. Hah. Anyway it was several blocks away. We were all fine. Of course, I think next time I'll be a little bit more assertive. I'm always afraid of worrying too much, because I did when I was a kid. (About the weather especially, now I worry about everything too much, but not so much the weather. And I try to keep it to myself.)
I wonder how stable sky scrapers are in tornadoes. Or Hurricanes. High wind situations. Who knows.
I have glasses, and they are giving me a hard time. My eyes are having a REALLY hard time adjusting. I feel like I don't see as well with the glasses on. Then, when I try to take them off to see better, I get terrible headaches. Yesterday I got a headache from trying to write on my computer for more than an hour. My peripheral vision is not doing so well. TV especially gives me a headache. I feel dizzy because of the concave or convex lense... things are different shapes.
Though I haven't run into any doors lately, which I used to do with considerable frequency. ^^; So maybe they aren't the wrong shapes, haha.
Anyway I feel like I'm fogging up like when I try to learn a new computer program, or a new computer system. Nothing really seems to make sense and I can't process certain things. I don't know which is better, either. Everybody keeps telling me tough it out, and that's what I'll try, but my departure in 10 days does not make it easy to do. I don't have much time to keep toughing it out, if it turns out that they really are not what I need.
But then again, I'm sure all hell would not break loose if I just didn't wear them. And I should probably start trusting doctors, and getting over my own ideas of how things should work. I mean I know I'm going to ignore the foot doctor when he says "don't wear flip flops", so maybe I should compromise and listen to this doctor when he says "wear the glasses".
Anyway I'm mostly disappointed, because true to form, I thought this would be a magic fix, and it definitely isn't. It's surprising how often I think about things like that. ^^; Embarrassing, kind of, too.
Anyway, today is August 20, which means that I have about ten days until I leave. I sent my plane ticket coordinator an email that said that my earliest date of departure was August 30. I don't know if she'll stick to that or not, but I don't know why she wouldn't. I had a dream last night that they booked the ticket for the 17th, which obviously wouldn't work, and shows how sincerely my subconscious is not registering the passing of time. This is the last day of girl's group at the Women's Center, too, so I'm going to take my camera in and get pictures of my girls and the center. I hope they don't mind. Next week at the center is supposed to be very relaxed. They are painting and cleaning, doing grunt work mostly, and I can stop by but I'm not on a schedule or anything. That actually worked out WONDERFULLY for my Chicago trip, which I should be making next week sometime, so I can get my visa and HANG OUT WITH JEN. :D I'm looking forward to it--especially because I found a plane ticket for 155. Say whaaat. :D
Anyhow, if I get my visa number tonight, which is Korean Friday, I should be able to leave on Saturday afternoon, and spend three days. Now I don't know if this will actually happen, but its what I'm hoping for, anyway. I don't know how hard it will be to get an interview at the Consulate.
There are other things I'm planning to do... Like BUY A CAMERA!! Woo! I'm interested in the Canon G10, which I've got my heart set on pretty seriously. It's a splurge for me, but I've been assured (by a gentleman at Best Buy) that it will last me five years. And this time, I think the quality will be enough for me to actually want to keep it five years down the road. My brother has agreed to buy my old one. I'm VERY excited for a new camera. I really want to get some great photos from Korea. My Japan photos turned out magnificently, and I had this dinky little 35mm that had NO features what so ever.
I definitely think that I will be opening another blog for my Korea adventures. It can be 100% more professional, while still giving friends and family a chance to read about what I'm up to. It can, you know, be a "blog" instead of a journal.
Part of me really wants to take a day trip to Lake Superior before I leave. Part of me thinks that this is an imperative part of being "right with the world" before I go anywhere. I don't know if I can do it. I mean, I would want to go to Eagle Harbor, but I wouldn't have enough time for that. Duluth and Split Rock would have to suffice. I don't have the excuse "I don't have money for that", but rather my excuse is "I don't know if my mom's car would ever forgive me--or if I could even borrow it for a whole day." Sadly, mom does not want to come with me. :(
We've been having some nice violent weather here. Tornadoes twice in the past two weeks. One when I was ON MY BIKE that decided to touch down close to me, and this time one that touched down in Minneapolis during girls group yesterday. I heard the sirens go off--kind of--because we were dancing. Now in my head I thought "That is a tornado siren, a very low one, but it is a tornado siren. Should I stop everyone and alarm the girls? No. There are people here that are older than me and probably know better what to do. Besides, there are other people in charge." Then Vicky came in and told us to stop playing and go somewhere else, this is after the sirens went through, and I think even after the tornado touched down. ^^; I felt kind of like an idiot. However, I do know that alarming 10 children old enough to know that something is wrong, but not old enough to be calm about it, is a BAD IDEA. I also know (from my last bicycle tornado encounter) that they pull up the sirens on the whole city when there is a touch down anywhere. And, well... it didn't seem like we really had a basement to go to. So.. I figured there was no point in freaking out. THEN OF COURSE I SEE THAT THE ROOF WAS RIPPED OFF OF A STORE IN MINNEAPOLIS. Hah. Anyway it was several blocks away. We were all fine. Of course, I think next time I'll be a little bit more assertive. I'm always afraid of worrying too much, because I did when I was a kid. (About the weather especially, now I worry about everything too much, but not so much the weather. And I try to keep it to myself.)
I wonder how stable sky scrapers are in tornadoes. Or Hurricanes. High wind situations. Who knows.