Well, time is slurping itself up into that vast receptacle we call the past, and the roadtrip is getting closer. In fact, it's only TEN DAYS AWAY!
The anticipation is excruciating.
I thought that this, the last double-digit day on the countdown widget I installed on my phone, would be the perfect time to start blogging. After all, Leiha and I have already checked out of our respective lives (well, I'm still strapped down by the last, thinnest threads of what I hope is the last marketing job I'll ever have [I probably just damned any chance I would have had of getting another one, even if I wanted it, by publishing that statement on the interwebs], but for all roadtrip-related intents and purposes, I've already checked out).
In case you couldn't follow the excessive parenthetical in that last sentence, let me give you a brief clarification: Since I returned from my Peace Corps service in Tanzania 13 months ago, I've been working at a small marketing and publishing company outside of Washington, DC. Though it's been a brief year of employment, it's been a productive one, as I worked with some truly standout people and learned a ton, including one way in which I don't want to spend the rest of my life. I also got to live with a very dear friend from my high school days, get to know his excellent college and professional friends, and spend some treasured time in our nation's capital. Ask me about all that some other time.
Now, I'm busy getting ready for an unbelievable adventure.
Getting ready involves tying up all of my loose ends, moving out of my house in DC, stashing my possessions back at my parents' house in New Jersey, and packing up the car. Really, I suppose that's all that has to happen. Well, that and 4 parties, 5 days of work, and 2 trips back and forth to NJ. I'm a pingpong ball bouncing up and down the East Coast and ricocheting off of indulgent party food.
Not for long. Getcher couches ready, America! We're a-comin'!
