T. Ippen Digest

After talking to my inside source at my historic summer employer earlier this afternoon, I've been given a start date for what is most likely my final season of work there. Even they admitted that they didn't think I'd return, but I'm willing to give it another go. A quick transition from school to work is what I need, and they can provide. 

After this summer, though, my life is completely open, and I have no idea what to do with that. 

The "original" plan, (c. 5 months ago) was to hop over to to France and Italy for a few weeks. I've been craving the sight of the Old Country (not my old country, just the old country) for some time, and that desire has only been further kindled by my area of study these past four years. The trouble, of course, is money, and that I'll have very little of it. It's important to me that I pay off my small tab of student loans as soon as humanly possible (I was imagining Morpheus as I typed that); skippin' around in Europe wouldn't have quite the same unencumbered joy about it if I had a $5,000 sword hanging over my noodle. 

A travel-mate would also be a major boon. Agent-L was originally going to be my companion, but his schedule for the fall now makes this impossible. Colonel-S (I'm using codenames, don't worry about it) is still a hopeful possibility, but I'll have to clear it with him closer to the date, and who knows what'll be on his plate months from now. Sweet-D and Major-B will also, in all likelihood, be unavailable. Might have to solo that muthafuggin continent, and it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.

Though, I did see that movie Taken. I don't want to end up poledancing on a Belgian drug lord's boat. Let's hope I can get a travel-mate.

These things are relatively far-off, I suppose. Better concentrate on passing these courses before I get in a tizzy over my own Eurotrip-esque Eurotrip.