Visa adventures

I'm going down to the Chinese Consulate in Manhattan in the morning to pick up our visas and passports (hopefully), and I just completed our Indian visa applications for a submittal appointment Thursday morning. I really hope it all goes smoothly since there isn't much time left for me to be sent away by a bureaucrat to come again another day...

As this isn't a very interesting or geographical post, I'll just refer back to the second one I did for this blog back on July 10, 2008, in which I said that the blog will be maintained whether or not I have anything interesting to show or tell. (I'm going to try to return to that plan, since I've missed the simple journal aspect to doing this) The only likely barriers to regular posting should be periodic lack of internet access. The other good reason to cycle back to July 2008 is that I'm back in the same place mentally -departure is coming fast, so to-do lists are clouding up my mind.

New direction, new view

So, having finished an intensive summer full of design classes and a street photography course as well as final preparations for going abroad again, I feel exhausted, dizzy and excited.

Since classes began in June I see typefaces everywhere -ones that have always been there, good ones looking good and bad ones looking bad, but now my eyes are tuned in to them. Everything looks richer. As for photography, I feel like Iv'e peeled back another layer -we'll see if it shows.

At the same time, the oven buzzer has finally gone off on applications long cooking for overseas work. We're watching the crust brown as we wait for formal placement documents. Interim travel plans have ripened simultaneously, so the first bite will be a 19-hour flight over the Arctic (I think -it's the shortest route) to Beijing (via Shanghai).