I'm not a very patient person. I hate waiting, and right now it seems all I'm doing is just that.
Waiting until my sister takes my furniture (she's using it in her apartment while I'm away) so I can organize my things downstairs--what to donate, sell, or trash--and then pack what I'm keeping. Mom's letting me store my stuff in the basement, but in case she needs to move while I'm gone I need to make sure it's all packed up so all she has to do is have someone load it into a truck.
Waiting for my luggage to get here. I ordered an Air Boss and CPA Briefcase from RedOxx.com for my carry on luggage, but they accidentally sent me the smaller Metro Briefcase instead. Luckily they're an awesome company, and when I called to let them know, they said they'd send me the CPA with a return label for the Metro. But that probably won't get here until Wednesday. I also ordered two Coleman 30in roller duffels from luggageonline.com, but they won't get here until Friday. Maybe waiting for luggage to get here sounds weird, but I wanna have it all in one place so I can envision what I'm taking, how I'll pack it and whatnot.
Waiting to buy new clothes. All right, so I've been putting this off intentionally since I hate shopping, but on Saturday I'm going with Edie to Arc, Ross, and maybe some other stores if we have time to look for some spiffy new business attire. Then we're going to go back to her and Jordy's place, cook dinner, and get smashed. I'm more excited for that part than the actual shopping, honestly.
Waiting for my diploma. We don't get them until six to eight weeks after the actual graduation ceremony. Not that this is really that aggravating, but I figured it's one thing I'm waiting for so I might as well put it on the list. Plus, it helps me remind myself that I am actually done with undergrad, which is still such a surreal concept that hasn't really quite sunk in. Whenever I drive by CSU campus I get this weird feeling, knowing I won't be going back there in the fall, but it doesn't linger. Sometimes it strikes me at random that, unless I decided sometime in the next couple of years I want to go to grad school, I'm done with my formal education. Edie says it'll really sink in when fall rolls around and we don't go back, and I'm pretty sure she's right.
Waiting to hear about my placement for JET. I feel like all I've been doing is waiting for some tidbit of information since I applied for JET back in October. According to posts on the JET forum in our Google Group, some people have already heard from their predecessors even though they aren't officially allowed to contact us until June 1. Of course, I haven't--which either means my predecessor's just playing by the rules, which I can't blame them for even though I wish they'd put me out of my misery already and tell me, or I don't have a predecessor. The JET office in the embassy should be getting a list of who's going to what prefecture (sometimes they get the town too) soon, but when they finally do get it, it'll take them a day or two to reformat it before they can post it on the website for us to see. Seriously. I'm going to explode if I don't hear at least what prefecture I'm going to by the end of the week.
I wish I could learn to meditate.
