Well, here we go! I've officially set up this blog to record my adventures on the European Studies program, which I will be embarking upon in approximately 11 days--that is, it is 11 days until I go to do the three weeks of coursework at the University of the South before we actually fly over, landing in Edinburgh on August 1. I've got a lot to do before then to prepare, mostly to do with clothes! Luckily, I've been watching a ridiculous amount of What Not to Wear (it's summer, that's what you do, right?) to fill my head with a variety of impractical, highly colorful ideas of what I might want to take...
I also bit the bullet and got my eyes checked last week. I have one pretty bad eye and one pretty good eye, which has allowed me to go with uncorrected vision for many years--that's right, i'm blind, so if i've ever given you a ride anywhere, i'm sorry, and also glad we didn't die. I figured though that, to really study art history, it helps a lot to be able to see the paintings. So now I've got a spiffy new pair of contact lenses! Predictably, I'm still adjusting to getting them in and out, but things are going better than I might have expected with them. I've got a very sparkly pink case for them to go in, which seems to take the edge off the terror of poking pieces of whatever-they-make-contacts-out-of into my eyeballs. Anyways, I'll keep working with that and hopefully, by the time I get on that plane in a little more than a month, it'll be nothing.
Guido needs to go to the Nissan homeland to have his engine serviced before I make that long drive to Sewanee--that's about 7 hours from Little Rock. So we'll see when that actually happens... it is beyond inconvenient to be without your car! Hopefully whatever it is they have to do can be done quickly.
That's about all I have to say right now, but I'm hoping to make updating this blog habitual before the program starts so I won't forget all about it once I go!
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