So, I must put off a "Oh my word, you are so damn STUPID" vibe or something - this morning I was helping a guy at work (get this ) detach a document from email to his desktop. He said "go ahead, you can say it." I'm all "Say what?" To which he replied "I'm a retard - go ahead & say it." Oh my. I'm sorry. What? It is very simple, but that doesn't mean you're retarded...just can't figure out the software. It's cool! It's cool I say!
Now I'm going to bore the snot out of everyone.
So, I think I have EVERYTHING for my trip. I have all my plane tickets which are:
1. Minneapolis to Syracuse (5/19/07)
2. JFK Int'l to Edinburgh, Scotland (5/26/07)
3. Edinburgh, Scotland to London's Heathrow (06/16/07)
4. London to Paris (07/07/07)
5. Frankfurt, Germany to Sydney, Australia (08/01/07, return 08/23/07)
6. Vienna, Austria to Newark, New Jersey (12/23/07)
I also have my Eurail pass (8 days in 2 months, 5 countries - figure for shorter distances I can just suck up and pay the $11 for another rail ticket - if you have a rail pass tickets are so CHEAP). I have my international cell phone, camera, backpack, apartment reservations in Vienna, hotel reservations in Paris, my school stuff is all set up - really all I need to do is pack & get to my plane on time. I literally have NOTHING left to do for this trip. Just GO. Which is SUCH a strange feeling. I suppose I still need to ship all my suits to my parents in NY so that they can send them to me when I get to Austria. In the larger scope of things, that is fairly minor. Oh, and the Austrian Consulate hopefully will send my passport back avec un visa. THAT would be helpful. I really need my passport back before I can leave the country. I suppose I'll feel 100% when I get the passport back.
Showing posts with label Austria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Austria. Show all posts
Friday, April 6, 2007
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Excuse me, but I'm having a moment here...
Sometimes, when I am bored at work & surfing the internet, I run across stuff like this:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=458218
I get overwhelmed and elated when I think that I am actually going to see all these things with my own eyes - not just someone else's pictures. (This happens to be photos of the district I'll be living in in Vienna - in one of the pictures you actually see a road sign for the street I'll be living on) There really is no substitute. It's like trying to explain to someone what chocolate tastes like who has never had chocolate (doesn't taste like chicken.) You can give them an IDEA based on their subjective knowledge, but it's not the same until you try it. It's the most amazing feeling.
Today I'm trying really, really hard not to strangle people. I'm beyond fed up. Perhaps in order to save my poor stress blister belabored eyeball I'm going to have to move to a mountain hut, drink green tea and do yoga all day. Far from the maddening crowds. Otherwise, people at my office just routinely stress me out. I think I'm WAY too formal to be working at Farmers. It's not them, it is most certainly me - but that doesn't change that today I want to strangle people. So I'm trying to keep to myself. But the very idea that I actually only am coming to work for another 17 days (handed in my letter of resignation, effective April 30th, yesterday) is somewhat calming.
Mailed in my visa application to the Austrian Consulate in Chicago today. SO paranoid about mailing my passport anywhere, but it must be done. Hopefully they're all "sweet! Come spend all your American money & support our Austrian economy all you like for 6 months." Trust me, happy Austrian Consulate peeps - I HAVE to finish law school...I am certainly returning to the states after my stint in your fair country (for all that I think I AM going to fall in love with it) because my student loan debt says "you must finish law school and be a laywer."
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=458218
I get overwhelmed and elated when I think that I am actually going to see all these things with my own eyes - not just someone else's pictures. (This happens to be photos of the district I'll be living in in Vienna - in one of the pictures you actually see a road sign for the street I'll be living on) There really is no substitute. It's like trying to explain to someone what chocolate tastes like who has never had chocolate (doesn't taste like chicken.) You can give them an IDEA based on their subjective knowledge, but it's not the same until you try it. It's the most amazing feeling.
Today I'm trying really, really hard not to strangle people. I'm beyond fed up. Perhaps in order to save my poor stress blister belabored eyeball I'm going to have to move to a mountain hut, drink green tea and do yoga all day. Far from the maddening crowds. Otherwise, people at my office just routinely stress me out. I think I'm WAY too formal to be working at Farmers. It's not them, it is most certainly me - but that doesn't change that today I want to strangle people. So I'm trying to keep to myself. But the very idea that I actually only am coming to work for another 17 days (handed in my letter of resignation, effective April 30th, yesterday) is somewhat calming.
Mailed in my visa application to the Austrian Consulate in Chicago today. SO paranoid about mailing my passport anywhere, but it must be done. Hopefully they're all "sweet! Come spend all your American money & support our Austrian economy all you like for 6 months." Trust me, happy Austrian Consulate peeps - I HAVE to finish law school...I am certainly returning to the states after my stint in your fair country (for all that I think I AM going to fall in love with it) because my student loan debt says "you must finish law school and be a laywer."
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