Post Numero 1

Well, 13 days to go until I'll be on that plane to South Asia for 3 solid months. I'll be taking a UT faculty led "Maymester" class (Environment & Society in South Asia) for a month, and then will head off to Pakistan to do 2 months of research on the Indus River- and see Ammar. =)

This summer certainly will be an adventure, or rather a series of adventures, as all trips should be. I feel perfectly confident about what I'll be doing once I get there, but a bit anxious about being able to accomplish all of the things I have to do here before taking off- getting someone to sublet my room, packing away my stuff for the summer, packing appropriately for the trip, acquiring the right gifts for the people I'll be interviewing in Pakistan & for the people I'll be staying with, and getting the whole lot of it to fit in my bag, making sure all the stuff I'll need for the research is in order, applying for all of those things I want to do next (& scholarships), the list goes on..

No need to worry. Somehow everything always seems to fall right into place, & if it doesn't, who needs it anyway?

Plus, there are all the family happenings: graduations, weddings, birthdays. All should be fun & perfectly distracting to keep me from worrying about finals & what I haven't studied. Plus there will be good food involved.. And if any of you know me well enough to be reading my blog, you know how I feel about food.

Anyway, a girl is kicking me out of this classroom I'm inhabiting, so I must be off.

Here's to this summer! Cheers to all reading & feel free to leave comments.

-Tabby