Five days. gaah!

[monadhrionnag]

There is so much one needs to do if one is leaving the country. I'd thought of all the typical things - student visa, passport, plane tickets, etc, but I hadn't really thought about everything else. Packing up my room is going to be horrid; most of what I will take home will be clothing, since I need all of my winter stuff to take to St Andrews and most of my summer stuff for when I'll be at home (or wherever) during the summer. But there's so much other stuff in my room - linens, books, dishes, random things I've picked up over the last year and a half - that won't go home. So I'll be storing it here...but I need to figure out how I'm going to get it to campus storage...and how all of it will box up. I need to do this before I leave in (gulp) five days...while studying for physics and orgo finals and shipping off stuff I can't spend nine months without - books, dvds, videos. Gaah! Plus, I'm trying to spend as much time with my friends as I can before I go - I won't see any of them for at least nine months...and some I won't see for a good year and a half. I know that I'm going to have a wonderful time at St Andrews (I'll be in SCOTLAND! for goodness' sake!), but I really regret that I'm going to be without my "family" of friends here. What will I do without you all down the hall, in my classes, or just a hop, skip, and a jump across campus? Who will watch Red Dwarf, BSG, and MST3K with me? Who will laugh at me and take embarassing pictures when I dress up in funny clothes? Who will walk with me around CW singing a four-part harmonized arrangement of "Into the West"? When will I get to run around in the rain without an umbrella...and enjoy it? (There's plenty of rain in Scotland...but it's too cold to frollick in it) I never do well with goodbyes...and they've started in earnest now. It was hard enough to say goodbye to the English Triumvirate...but how am I going to make it through goodbyes to the P-Wave Shadow Zone?! Sniff, sniff.

Wow. That's a somewhat lengthy and whiny lj entry...but I guess what I really want to say is that I WILL MISS YOU ALL...I suggest that all of you join liberalnun in taking a road trip to Scotland.