Smitten Kitten

Into the Present

It’s Monday night for me, but not really Monday anymore. (Oh, the joys of working overnights…) Call volume isn’t so bad, the other overnight team is here on Mondays and that increases idle time for all of us.

Only 6 work days after tonight.  People keep asking me about the countdown and am I really leaving.  One of my work acquaintances grilled me about my reasons for going - I shouldn’t be moving across the world just to be with him.

Of course, he is the reason I’m going, but that doesn’t mean I’m giving up anything to be with him.  I’m not giving up school (starting classes in Jan.) and he feels just as strongly as I do about me being a doctor; we’re already planning to be back in the West for my med school.  It’s just easier for me to move right now, and much cheaper for me to finish my bio degree there. 

Everything there is cheaper - it’s actually cheaper for me to live there than to pay the phone bills we’ve had since we met.  Both of us are running very low on cash at the moment and we’ve had to cut phone time to a bare minimum - usually less than half an hour a day (unless Les manages to steal some internet).  It’s rough, but we’re getting through it.

Yesterday was my day off.  I slept through the day (to be expected) and woke up in the late afternoon.  Went out to sushi with mom, then came back home to “pack”, which didn’t happen.  I did work on transferring a lot of files to my hard drive (mostly done), but there are a lot of other things I could have done while doing that. Instead, I caught up on True Blood, Dexter and watched the end of Rome S.2.  I hang my head in procrastinator’s shame.

Goals for the work week: Do laundry. Start packing clothes and make a list of said clothes. Find dad’s huge suitcase in barn. Order contact cards for US people. Apply for International Driver’s Permit. Submit absentee ballot.