a face at first just ghostly

- get American cash from bank
- buy headphones*
- order Team Ethereal shirt
- activate international student ID
- buy antihistamine medication and toiletries bag
- get legs and bikini line waxed
- photocopy credit card
- update iPod
- mark the last 15 maths papers
- PACK EVERYTHING




...




Hoooooly fuck.

*These headphones? So sexy. So, so sexy. I was initially dismayed because the $199 ones I'd wanted were no longer in stock, but after a hurried consultation with the sales rep and some carefully played face-falling at the price sticker, I managed to get the last pair of $299 Sennheiser noise-blockers for $230.

I win.

Uh...Rami? Heater?

fahye: You realise that this makes Thom LEGALLY his nephew.

There's probably a law against that.

schiarire: OH GOD.

YOU'RE RIGHT.

I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY ABOUT THAT. Luckily, the Trebonds are not known for their aversion to incest.

~

You freaks. Now look what you've done.

Packed.

As in, you know. Packed.

I can easily close my suitcase without any sitting-on-the-top-and-crossing-my-fingers, and I haven't expanded the expandable part. Which means that there should definitely be room for a) the crap I expect I will buy in America, and b) the inexplicable doubling in volume that the contents of all luggage undergoes when you try and repack it for the return journey.