When I signed onto facebook today I saw that my "moving to italy" countdown has hit 14 days, and oddly enough my brain immediately translated that into a fortnight. I say oddly enough because I was not aware that I knew what a fortnight was. After thinking about it, I thought that maybe my brain may have been guessing so I decided to look up a fortnight; then while I was looking that up I started wondering how much a score was (as in "Four score and seven years ago") so I looked that up too. For your education, a fortnight is 14 days, and a score is 20 years. For those of you that remember that from school, I applaud your memory! :-)
There you have it, I have a fortnight to finish getting ready to move to another country. Some of the things I have left to do: sign up for travel medical insurance, order currency (to have when I land to pay my rent), rent/buy my cellphone for Italy, find a reputable car company to pick me up from the airport and bring me to Amelia, figure out how to switch from Verizon to AT&T (since my contract with Verizon ends while I am gone).... and the list literally goes on and on.
So I think that maybe my brain converted the time so that it was still slightly ambiguous so I don't start to panic about getting things done. Thank you brain!
P.S. Pardon the digression at the beginning, and get ready for more... I do that pretty often.
You can do it! I'm so excited... did I already say that. Is it weird that I think that song every day? Maybe. xoxoxox
ReplyDeleteGreat song... great Saved By the Bell moment, I think it's a plus that you have it in your head everyday! :-) xoxoxoxo
ReplyDeleteWhen you say move, are you staying after your program? Or is this just a move for the summer? Or do you not know yet? SO exciting! :-)
ReplyDeleteSadly I am not staying after the program...yet! :-) I would need to either A) get married to an Italian, thereby giving me Italian Citizenship or B) get hired by someone that gets me a work visa in Italy. I am crossing my fingers. :-)
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