Well, today's the day. I'm shipping out on a 6:30 pm flight, and it is currently 7:23 am (as of finishing this, 8 am). At the moment I've pulled a usual Kevin's method of preparing for leaving by not actually packing pretty much anything last night and having a giant list of things to do today. Luckily this time I have about ten hours in which to complete all of these tasks, rather than the three hours I'd usually have to do everything at ND.
I actually set my alarm for 8 am, so I suppose nervous excitement (or the fact that I'd been consistently waking up at 6:45 for my job) has taken over.
Since I need to make a list of things to do today anyway, I figured I might as well make it here:
(1) Laundry
(2) Call USAA and ask them not to (necessarily) flip out if someone tries to use an ATM card in Guatemala or Honduras.
(3) Talk to a few people to whom I still need to say "Bye!" (I have no clue whether that was a grammatically correct wording. I spent about five minutes just now reading Grammar Girl instructions on when to use "who" vs. "whom" and that was my best guess, but honestly I sort of gave up. After a while it seemed a silly thing to be spending my time on)
(4) Pick up a few last-minute supplies for the trip: battery-powered alarm clock, sunglasses (maybe?), daily planner, at least one other thing that's slipping my mind right now..
(5) Mail a few more fundraising letters to some people I should've mailed things to months ago.
(6) Figure out exactly which clothes I'm bringing with me and separate them into vacuum-packable and non-vacuum-packable (cause I'll be in Guatemala for two months before I get to my long-term location).
(7) Actually pack everything into my suitcase(s) and backpack. (I'm a votin' for it all goin' into one suitcase, but there are a few things that ain't gonna easily fit well (Please Excuse My Dear Accented Speakin'))
(8) Listen to Chicken Fried, The Wind, Stereo Hearts, (cough, maybe Call Me Maybe and one or two songs by One Direction, endcough), In The Mood, Sing Sing Sing, and a few others at least once today.
Hmm... I'm definitely forgetting something.
Oh well!
