Good-bye, Summer, Hello Asia!

You probably noticed I haven't updated.

When I was little, I used to be annoyed by the very existence of August. Aside from my two best friends' birthdays, there was literally nothing good about August. It was everything that stood between me and the end of summer vacation, the next year of school. I hated it, and I hated the overwhelming sense of dread that grew and grew as the days passed.

I don't know where I got the idea that nothing happens in August, because it seems to me right now that everything happens in August.

I've been busy, you guys. Horrendously busy.

"With what?" I'm sure one of you just asked. And I'm pretty sure that one of you is just my mom who really only reads this blog to probably make sure I'm not doing anything illegal.

One word: Paperwork.

It's time, I guess, to make the official announcement. As it stands right now, in two months time, I'll be (hopefully!) moving into my brand new dinky little apartment in South Korea, ready to start pretending like I know how to teach English to a room full of kids. This is, honestly, the most terrifying, nervewracking, relatively spontaneous thing I've ever done.

The fact that I've gotten this far is impressive. I've backed out a million times, including six hours ago, only to be reeled back in by the increasingly-more-annoyed-yet-still-impressively-patient Dan. I don't do things. I especially don't do cool things. I work at Starbucks, I stare at a blank MS Word window, I play video games. That's been my life for the past two years.

Basically, if I don't do this, I'll never do anything.

So I'm doing this. I'm taking a 26 hour flight to the other side of the world to live for a year in a country I only know through various comic books scattered around my room. 

However, this brings me back to my original point: paperwork.

All my friends have gone abroad. I'm the last one to set foot outside the country and I've never had to mess with passports and visas my entire life. So the past two months or so have been hellish, August in particular, as deadlines and mistakes and postage has consumed my life. I'm writing this to you in the lull between Paperwork and Embassy Visit, while I'm waiting for someone to decide they want someone to teach English for them that blushes when she makes eye contact with someone.

It's been nonstop. And on top of that, it seemed like every time I said to myself "you need to update your blog," something happened.

First it was the second degree burn I got, that looks like it's permanently marked my hand and was very, very messed up for a while.

Then it was the sprained wrist, that still hurts when I touch it.

I'm barely in one piece, now that we're into September, and suddenly what was "Oh, you want me to leave in November? That's so far away, of course!" back in April is now, "Oh shit, I'm leaving in November, and I don't even know how to ask where the bathroom is."

또봐요, you guys!