dissonance

Too soon for this

I wonder when this move will really hit me.  I thought it would be after the interview.  I thought it would be after I got the job offer.  Or maybe after I announced it on the blog.  Or even after I bought the plane ticket.

But I feel like it still hasn't fully hit me.  Maybe I'm just so excited about the future that I haven't really thought about what I'm leaving behind. 

Maybe it'll hit me after I get there and the first Thursday rolls around with no dodgeball.

Or after my first foreign drunkfest with nothing to eat but kippers or whatever and not a carne asada burro in sight.

Or maybe when I realize I haven't had a knit night in a while and I wonder what happened at last week's episode of House.

Will I eventually use "I'm pissed" to mean I drank too much rather than I'm about to kick someone's ass? (arse?)

Will it be weird to see the sun set over hills and buildings instead of a fiery glow behind the ocean?

I wonder if I'll cry at the airport.

Mark the calendars

Work in progress

Somewhat of a countdown has begun.  I'm pretty sure I'll be outta here by mid-September.  Thusly, I am compiling the epic "Before I leave" list.  I know I'll come back to the states eventually but I don't  know if I'll come back to San Diego so this is particuarly crushing.

Suggestions welcome.

Things to do (ie "23 year old surfer"):

• Bonfire at the beach
• Watch sunset from duh, Sunset Cliffs
• Pedicure - with a little flower on the toe
• Nap somewhere in Balboa Park
• Go to every Dodgeball (without the dodgeball) Night
• Driving range at Torrey Pines
• Concert at Casbah - Kite Flying Society AND Swandive on the 16th! That's two bands I personally know... by proxy!
• Go home
• Whistlestop
• Landlord Jim's
• No-rae-bang - Last week in LA I said "karaoke" in front of my Korean friends and I got quite a yelling.  How dare I forget my roots.
• Bowling - I hate bowling! But gosh aren't you going to miss hearing me say that?
• Every single knit night - catch up on all the SYTYCD and Project Runways on Marisa's DVR.
• Cooking class on the 11th - Midsummer night's feast or something like that. Anyway, on the menu is Blackberry martinis! YUM!
• Bjorkestra! - which actually falls on a knit night so that conflicts with a prior To Do so I'm going to have to work something out

Places to eat (ie "How to gain 20 lbs in 20 days"):

• India Tandoor on Mira Mesa - I need several people to go with me. You are not to order your own food, we are going to get: Chicken Byriani, Eggplant Bhartha, Alu Gobi, and Chicken Makhani.  I will have five bites of each of your dishes, mmkaythanx. I know London will have fantastic Indian food but I just have so many memories attached to this place.
• Sombreros - for a bc burro
• Los Panchos - This must be after drunken revelry, preferably after Landlord Jim's
• The Prado in Balboa Park for happy hour
• Sushi Ota
• Soju and Omelette Rice - either here or SF
• Fins - fish burrito
• Rubios - fish taco
• Wahoos - that fantastic rice with the avacado cilantro salsa
• The Cheese Shop - sandwich in La Jolla
• Pho on convoy somewhere
• Boba - milk tea flavor from SD, honeydew melon or lychee flavor in SF
• Jasmine for dim sum
• Ja-jang myun (black bean noodles) in SF
• Kimchee soup, dang jang soup, kimchee, galbi jhim, bokum bap - from Mom.
• Get a gang to Jamba Juice and order stuff from the secret menu