I leave in two weeks to begin my whirlwind summer...first to KC/OK for two weeks and then out to Arizona for the summer...I probably won't be home until mid-august.

I'm extremely excited about it. I can't wait. I think it will be a good learning experience for me as well as a very good amount of "de-stressing" time for me. I love being gone and traveling during the summer because it gives me a chance to get away from everything here and refocus myself.

I've officially started my packing...made up the lists of things I'll need and things I still need to get and all that good stuff. I've also started getting the things I won't need (or can get away with not using) between now and then together and in stacks ready to go in my room.

I am starting to realize just how much I've been neglecting my friends here...mostly because we've all been busy and we always say "when summer gets here we'll hang out more" and now I"m going to be gone all summer so that won't be happening...but its OK. Most of us are making plans to hang out before I leave

I've been thinking about setting up a new Gmail account just for the summer...the one I have now and my yahoo account both get a lot of junk mail, facebook notifications, and group messages and I know that I won't have near as much time as I have now to be online so I'm thinkin' it would be better to have a fresh account that I can use to keep in touch this summer. Any thoughts about that??

Also...I will have my phone with me but I don't think it will work unless I'm in town. Which should be at least once a week. I've been meaning to stop by a Verizon store and look on one of their maps of their coverage but I haven't had a chance yet...hopefully before I leave.

Anyway...that's it for now I think...I'll update again before I leave...a couple of times hopefully...and I promise not to drop off the face of the earth.