"make a list" OFFICIALLY crossed off the list

.so.

so, thanks to my livinginthisworldsavvy aunt Kelly - my computer is finally starting to be ready for tchad.

              I have learned amazing things about newfangled apps such as dropbox, composing emails offline and many other marvels of the modern world.

and (drumrolllll)) I have finally started composing my master list of things that should have already been done/bought and consequently feel a small measure of competence.

    to ADD to my deserving said recent competence, I have also  said godspeed to the passport (why someone thought it would be so great to ship booklet off to hands unknown I don't know) and am hoping to get a visa in return.

       I am also preparing in other ways.  in a recent daring feat of auto-imposed swelter - my back has received the unprecedented opportunity to become intimately stuck the seat as I race madly across multiple state lines in an un-airconditioned black car.  really, what could be a more logical pre-curser to my desert jaunt where temperatures are rumored to top 100 at night?  however, as to prevent too lethal a shock to my overtaxed hypothalamus when at home my AC is firmly set at 68 degrees and I sleep under a fan.

in other news -
the first lesson of the first level of Rosetta stone French has been halfway completed, the insurance still has not re-imbursed my vaccines, and due to the increasing incidence of violence and tornado warnings, my family has advised me with rather a strong finality that leaving my poor dented car in west TN is no longer an option.

....still - school finally a wretched chapter of history - BSN fully acquired and now can turn my attention to various details such as the furtive accumulation of pen lights, the dark arts of IV insertion, and the study of a variety of insidious vectors.

Je vous tuerai avec DEET vous la moustique d'anopheles femelle infortunée !

bon nuit.

.welcome

 - huge thanks to everyone for your support, encouragement, etc. 

after decades of dreaming it looks like I EMBARK out early september (!!!!)

so.  I'm going to Chad. 

in september

thats very soon

                   Command of the French Language: minimal
Plans to command it quickly: many!!

          Box of unopened Rosetta Stone on Floor: 1

Last day of real job: August 16
Visas Aquired: 0
Plans to aquire quickly: several
Lists of what to bring - 0
Items on to do list stating "write list" - 1
Amount of money spent on travel vaccines - $584.00
Insurance re-imbursement of that amount - $0,00000000000000
Excitement Level: high
Summary of Situation: Copasetic