lucky number seven

After counting down weeks upon weeks for my departure date, I am finally counting down days vocally. I had to tell myself I wasn't counting down the days for my own sanity, but I now think I'm close enough to regard my departure as just around the corner.

It is not easy reading all of the others on the learning abroad blog. They seem to be enjoying their trips and making the proper adjustments while I've just started packing for my destination.... well, okay, scratch that. I've had my mom yell at me to start packing while I lounge around the house watching the glimmer from the sun peak through my blinds and disappear as time slowly passes by. I could be productive and pack... but really, who am I kidding? It's just not going to happen until this weekend. I think I'm better off just leaving heaps of clothes in the piles where they belong... on my floor, bunched up like tangled bodies after a good game of twister.

I think its the weirdest thing not having class while all your peers are in class, doing homework, and agonizing about their work loads while you're just sitting there without a job, without school, without a gym pass because the university counts the rec center in as an extra fee and now charges you eight dollars for a 'day pass' (Not my favorite thing to find out). All I can really do is lounge about with my buddy Derrida, go to Barnes and Noble and read a random book for five hours, or listen to music while 'googling' dengue fever to see the various and exotic diseases that await me on my arrival. Instead of being extremely enthralled for what's to come, I've been surprisingly stoic. I don't know why I'm going through a drought of emotion... I always thought I'd be worrying about how many bags I was taking, or which adapter would allow my laptop to function in Aussie-land, but no... just unemotional pre-departure bliss. I'm not doubting it will hit me at some point... just not now... and with seven days to go before I lift off, maybe I'm hoping it will hit me soon enough.

Melbourne... its about time.