I leave for Vietnam in 4 days, and so little is ready!
Dad got the dates he's supposed to be in Russia wrong. *facepalm* So he's due in Russia this week and probably over the weekend and everything's all kind of confused.
The worst part is that he doesn't tell me what's going on so I don't know what to expect. This is a perennial problem with him - literal paternalism, where I'm not expected to worry my (pretty little) head about it.
He means well, but it's a PITA because even if he's making the decisions, I'd prefer to know what they are so I can adjust my expectations accordingly. eg. if he decides we're going to visit museums about the Vietnam war, and I was hoping for a nice quiet day. (I do want to see the Vietnam war from the Vietnamese POV; how they see it, how they spin it. Everything's spin, and while the facts are the facts, and the reasons are the reasons, right and wrong are complicated and messy.)
Gifts for people I'm staying with are a big problem: it's nice to leave something behind - preferably something useful or enjoyable. I just don't have TIME to finish things.
Tonight is dinner with a couple of friends, one of whom I haven't seen in maybe a decade?
Tomorrow is bible study - last before I go away.
Thursday and Friday night are what I have free, and on Thursday I have a massage appointment and need to pick up a luggage from my parents. Friday will be packing EVERYTHING FOR A MONTH.
I haven't organised travel insurance yet, my travel documents are in order, but I also need to let my family and friends know the specifics of the travel plans (so if my plane is shot down by some country who thinks it's a foreign MIG they at least know I'm among the dead, but also so pickups and dropoffs happen correctly - a rather more probable circumstance), dig out my foreign currency and my Oyster card for London (does San Fran have a proper transport card yet, or are they still using those flimsy paper excuse things?) which I haven't seen since before the move...
Phone card for travelling in other countries.
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alphaflyer if I can swing flights and times and dates and ARGH.
There's a lot to do. And I have to tie up all my work before I go...
Writing? Yeah, right...
*sigh* I probably shouldn't even be writing this.
Dad got the dates he's supposed to be in Russia wrong. *facepalm* So he's due in Russia this week and probably over the weekend and everything's all kind of confused.
The worst part is that he doesn't tell me what's going on so I don't know what to expect. This is a perennial problem with him - literal paternalism, where I'm not expected to worry my (pretty little) head about it.
He means well, but it's a PITA because even if he's making the decisions, I'd prefer to know what they are so I can adjust my expectations accordingly. eg. if he decides we're going to visit museums about the Vietnam war, and I was hoping for a nice quiet day. (I do want to see the Vietnam war from the Vietnamese POV; how they see it, how they spin it. Everything's spin, and while the facts are the facts, and the reasons are the reasons, right and wrong are complicated and messy.)
Gifts for people I'm staying with are a big problem: it's nice to leave something behind - preferably something useful or enjoyable. I just don't have TIME to finish things.
Tonight is dinner with a couple of friends, one of whom I haven't seen in maybe a decade?
Tomorrow is bible study - last before I go away.
Thursday and Friday night are what I have free, and on Thursday I have a massage appointment and need to pick up a luggage from my parents. Friday will be packing EVERYTHING FOR A MONTH.
I haven't organised travel insurance yet, my travel documents are in order, but I also need to let my family and friends know the specifics of the travel plans (so if my plane is shot down by some country who thinks it's a foreign MIG they at least know I'm among the dead, but also so pickups and dropoffs happen correctly - a rather more probable circumstance), dig out my foreign currency and my Oyster card for London (does San Fran have a proper transport card yet, or are they still using those flimsy paper excuse things?) which I haven't seen since before the move...
Phone card for travelling in other countries.
Possible trip to visit
alphaflyer if I can swing flights and times and dates and ARGH.There's a lot to do. And I have to tie up all my work before I go...
Writing? Yeah, right...
*sigh* I probably shouldn't even be writing this.