lunch with jy and yish: we conclude once again that we are all of us un-adventurous people who do not, and will never have the cojones to dump our current way of life and wander off to make a difference in war-torn nations.

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june. three more months. not a jot of progress towards being ready for leaving. it's a double whammy, really, because we will be moving house in a few months, which means i need to make sure all my stuff is in order, not just the things i need to bring with me back to the states. and i am certain that the magnitude of that task is far greater that what i envisage when i glance around my room. stuff hides. wardrobes are larger on the inside than the outside, and god only knows how much time i will need to spend deciding which books are staying and which are coming with me.

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and the penn administration is fretting me by steadfastly refusing to reply to my email. i've received so little information from them since my acceptance letter that i'm beginning to wonder if they sent that to me by accident. shouldn't i have my visa documents by now? have some sort of first-year syllabus or manual? anything? i feel very unwanted.