Travel Schedule

[cjsmith]

Must resurrect PalmPilot soon. Want to plot out all travel through end of 2003. Since I don't have a job, I want to take advantage of the free time and travel a huge bunch... the last four years without much vacation time have made their mark, and I'll be @#$!d if I dither around and pass up this opportunity. So:

Germany. Can't be rescheduled: square dance booking.
Have been saving my pennies for Cairo since roughly last summer. Really really want to go.
Have been saving my pennies for Scotland since roughly I was born. Might be able to attach it to Germany trip - one set of tickets, one set of jetlag.
Many local square dance bookings are starting to make the summer and early fall time-schedule look kind of tight.
Fill in interstices with hikes, camping, backpacking, mooching plane rides, everything I never had the time to do while I was working.

Then there's 2004, which might, just might, contain Japan (another square dance booking) and Sweden again (yep, square dance booking)... but I'll be employed by then, I devoutly hope... hrm, must plan ahead.

Want that durn PalmPilot back.

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

You'll be in Indiana (maybe)? Surely you're not moving back so soon?

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

No of course not! Just back for a visit. Rondo's job pays for us to fly back to the states once a year. We've decided we'll be flying to Indiana. See Cyd, and some other friends, take the kids to see their Indianapolis specialists (doctors), and that's probably when I'll be doing my qualifying exams towards my Ph.D. So I'll be a nervous wreck. But yeah, it's temporary. Then we all fly back to Egypt. :) Sorry to startle you!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That's a GREAT benefit! Any time you get just overwhelmingly homesick for some simple thing, you can reassure yourself that you'll be home in a matter of months...

Yikes, your quals. Good luck with those. (I thought you'd already done them? Silly me, I had the idea you were All But Dissertation.)

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

When I took my leave of absence, I was "All but ABD" -- all but all but dissertation. :)

Specifically, I did everything towards the Ph.D. EXCEPT the quals, and the diss itself. Because once you take those quals, you only have 7 years to complete the diss, or the whole thing expires. Since I didn't know how long I'd be gone, I didn't think it wise to put myself through quals that might be wasted, and if I came back *before* the 7 years were up, I didn't want my diss time shortened.