OK - now that my flights are booked!  My intentions for studying Chinese set!  I am ready to go!

I have packed up my office with my STUFF!  Except for my suits, which Keith has so graciously offered to host (there are only 4 - the rest of my hanging clothes are at the office in the hanging closet, which my office mates have graciously allowed me to take over)!

I have a few things left to take over to the office and a few holes to patch in the walls (maps sure do take a toll on the plaster!)! 

I also want to meet with Hillary at the Australian Research Center about the abstracts. 

OH - I still have to pick up my passport at 1 pm - and receive my plane tickets at 5 pm - and get yuan from the ATM down the street!!!  grinning WILDLY!

BUT I AM READY TO GO!