- i will start painting houses (if things come alive) -

Good work, self. Your timing couldn't be better. Tumbling into infatuation with less than a month to go before departure to another continent? Utterly romantic and beautifully typical.

Ah well ~ life's to be lived, and so here's to summer evenings, old radio plays, and meanderings through moonlit/streetlit parkways with the best of company.

Now to get back to the practical side of life - read: packing. Egad.

- pack up all our things and move so far away -

(Say something, anything.)

- Testing, one, two, three?

(...anything but that.)


So the words belong to the characters Mark and Joanne from the musical Rent, but in lieu of other snappy banter - there you have it. This is the testpost from home ground - soon enough, my feet will leave the ground en route for Ibaraki-ken, Nihon, where I will work as an English language teaching assistant - but not yet.

For now, being buried under ten feet of paperwork and with a growing sense of brilliancehesitationexcitementwonderohgodit'sactuallyhappening is a good start.

Here's to dreams and to dreamers; cheers!

*t.