The week after work

...spent packing and saying goodbye to material possessions.  Alternately, manic-ly reclusive and needing people.  It seems to be baby-making time in the world of my friends, so I'm also seeing beginnings of lives and big life changes all around me, as I'm about to leave the country, solo, for as long as possible.

Getting rid of the extras: TV, VCR, dining table - keeping the essentials: bike, clothing, unearthing arts articles from when I used to be an academic to take for inspiration...

My student visa is in the mail - it's official.  I feel weightless and I don't know if I like it.  Looking forward to being grounded again.