Who's one lucky bitch??
Oh man. MEEEEEEE. Things are finally coming together!!

- I'm buying Tori Amos tickets for the 27th of July... $92 is expensive for 2 seats but I've made $100 more than that just doing chores for Justin's mom over the last two weeks. And she'll probably "hire" Justin and I again.

-Country Fair is next weekend, w00t!

-We're staying in town this weekend even though we could go boating with J's family. Driving to Anacortes is just NOT an option with all the travel we'll be doing the next two months. Anyone want to get together and do anything? We also have the option of going up to P-town and staying in J's fam's West Hill's house, watching Portland fireworks, eating good food (partially on their bill) and watching movies on their widescreen HDTV. Anyone want to do that?

-I can take either the Freeman OR AIEJ. Doesn't matter too much. My dad calmed down. I think I'm going to take the Freeman because, all things being equal (meaning my parents take $5,000 in loans and my scholarship covers the difference) the Freeman actually gives me even more spending cash even after a personal purchase of plane tickets. Payment from the loan overflow will still give me about $2440 spending cash or ~$820/ term. Payment from the AIEJ would be about $800 less than that. And the Freeman doesn't leave me worrying about banking internationally.

-I have a plane fare reserved for only $740... It leaves on the 16th of September from SeaTac, makes one stop in Vancouver for 2 hours and goes straight to Narita. 10 hours. And it will only cost me $25 to change the departure date. Huzzah Canada Air!! I've heard they have a niiiice airline, too. Oh yeah, and I got the LAST SEAT on the flight.

-FINALLY, I JUST GOT MY LOAN DEPOSIT FOR MY LAPTOP PURCHASE!!! AAAAAAHHAHAHAHHA!!!! OK, I still have to wait until next week to get my laptop because they don't have the printer for the rebate in stock (and all purchases must be made at the same time) but still... I actually CAN GET MY LAPTOP NOW!!! YAYAAAYAYAYAYAAAYYY!!! Err, next week...

So, after this stuff gets sorted out I need to...
-Buy some clothing items to take with me
-Find a thesis advisor
-Gather thesis materials
-Study Japanese... STUDY STUDY!!
-Turn in my financial aid summary to Lois Yoshinge
-Buy gifts for my mysterious host family
-Get my damn fundraising page totally up and running to see if I can get a few thou in sponsorship before I go. : )

SO BUSY!!! NO TIME!! NO ENERGY!!! HUNGRY!!! LIKE THE WOLF!!!