Countdown! 15 dias

Funny I tend to be writing on Wednesdays...guess midweek musings fit the bill as I anticipate the Big Day Dec 27. It's been a big week, getting my tourist visa on Monday at the Bolivian Consulate in NY (remarkably frustration-free, if not the picture of efficiency) and selling my Sentra as well as training my successor as Program Manager of the Committee on Human Rights at Harvard. Eagerly anticipating word of our will-be home in Sopocachi and the status of furnishings (present, absent, mix thereof) and incredulous that in just 2 weeks from today it will be the "night before." Hopefully by then my thoughts will be reeling in slightly different directions (by then my stuff will HAVE to fit in the allotted suitcases to go and boxes to stay!) I'll be moving my bedroom set this weekend (hopefully before the N'oreaster forecast) and supposedly folks off Craig's List will collect the mattress and box spring, making this an even easier move than my last prize-winning one in August. Saying lots of social good-byes (though I do prefer this less scary "hasta luego") and looking forward to a final mega-rendez vous at a favorite tapas bar this Saturday before my final week of work and last days with family over the holidays. And reading all I can from Bolivian politics to contemporary short stories. Buenas noches...