Nine Days and Counting!

I'm unbelievably psyched. My 16+ hour flight to India is in nine days. I've been busy these last two wks running around the entire greater San Diego area preparing to leave. I got my Japanese Encephalitis shots, 23 winter coats, a brand spanking new camera, an account with the Bank of India, and more meds than I know what to do with (I cleared out the CVS Pharmacy of Emergen C - many weird looks. Naturally, I told ogling onlookers of my verminophobia and that I had a very serious addiction to Emergen C). I've also tried to ween myself off of meat since mid-December so I don't have to go cold-turkey when I get to Dharamsala (haha, get it...turkey... ya know, the meat product?... oh c'mon you guys! It was a good joke). Anyway, I've failed miserably in that endevor but it was a valiant effort.

On a more somber note, in these last two wks I've also had to say a lot of goodbyes. This past semester was the best yet of my college career and when I come back in the Fall it will be durastically different - an inevitability that I might just avoid by not coming back from India at all (yeah, how do you like that one! "Change" can suck it.). A lot of my close friends will have graduated, my Little will be abroad, and I'll be just another Senior with no legitimate life plan. Awesome. I also won't be seeing many of my friends in SD for the better part of a year - also lame, esp since you guys are some of the greatest people I have ever known. I'm seriously in awe of how awesome you guys are and what great friends you've been over the years. So, to my friends and family (blood-related and otherwise) in both Atlanta and Calif, eventhough I've already said it (or at least implied it), and I'll be saying it again and again over the next months, just know that I'll be missing you every day and there is nothing more important to me in the world than our friendship. I love you all.

Until next time I procrastinate, tashi delek.