Two weeks and five days until I begin a new part of my life. Whenever you are leaving your house to run some errands, do you ever have that sense that you’re forgetting something that you know you will remember as soon as you get on the road? I have that times a thousand right now. At this point I have just about everything I need in order to actually begin my studies (paid for tuition and dorm, applied for visa, have travel arrangements, etc) but there are still a lot of little things I need to accomplish before leaving. Those would include, selling my car, visiting everyone I want to see before leaving including relatives in Indiana, going to the wedding of my former Scoutmaster Chris Smith in Nashville, getting my resume/CV in order, printing up some business cards, packing up all my crap for the last time, oh god the list goes on. I’m pretty sure I have everything written down so that’s at least one comforting thing.

Today at my telemarketing job my boss played a little trick on me. Since I call alumni of the University of Cincinnati, I’m technically not supposed to be working there unless I’m actually a student (which I haven’t been the whole time I’ve worked there.) So she calls me into her office and basically tells me that she knows I’m not a student and that I won’t receive credit for any of the fundraising I’ve done this quarter and basically implied that I should just quit now. I wasn’t really sure what to think right then and there so I basically played it cool, calm, and collected. I quickly found out that she was joking though because Jenny is simply unable to hold a straight face. Even though I’m not a student, I have been in the past, and quite frankly I’m one of the best callers there so I don’t think they’re about to fire me over a technicality. I did tell them that I wasn’t a student when I first started but Jenny’s exact reply was “I’m going to pretend I didn’t hear that” so I never brought it up and I don’t think I did anything wrong; I’ve raised over US$60,000 for the school, after all.