we re off to ye olde land of Nowhere near here

erm. I'M GOING CAMPING NOW. bye livejournal for the next coupla days. WHAT THE FUCK AM I GUNNA DO WITHOUT AN IPOD/INTERWEBZ/LULZ/HEATUS TIL MONDAY!???? :( x read more

I'll be gone from the 1st to the 12th, mostly in Colorado, except for this weekend when I'll be "awake" at 6 in the morning driving my sister's stuff to the middle of nowhere, New Mexico, where she has a teaching job on an Indian reservation. It's her first teaching job, 1st grade. I'm looking forward to seeing her bunker in the Pueblo chemical weapons depot: apparently the government made far more chemical weapons storage bunkers than they needed, so they rent the rest out for tiny sums. Bunkers...

Grade-gate continues and looks like it I won't be able to resolve any issues until June 20. But given that I can't wait that long, I hauled all my shit down to SSC this morning and got my interview on. They took one look at my various transcripts and such and pretty much said "oh yeah, you're accepted, don't worry about it". Again, it's not official yet, but I'm 99.9% sure I've successfully transferred. It would look as though things have finally gone may way...the reality hasn't quite sunk in yet...

At last! Japan ! I touched down at Narita, glided through customs and as I now rumbled down the escalator to the Metro I had that funny feeling that I’d finally made it. It used to be the feeling of anticipation of all my expectations coming through, but nowadays it more resembles anticipation of just how my expectations will be turned on their head.   The excitement promptly vanished, however, as my feet hit the metro platform and I ran headlong into a mass of kanji, hiragana...