This morning, I have been moving like a speeding train. We are getting ready for a trip and this usually entails me getting a bunch of stuff together, double checking that we have said stuff and returning numerous times to the house to retrieve said stuff. This morning I had to go back upstairs four times to get: passports, bank deposit slip, watch, toiletries, toothbrush, sweater and dry cleaning. After all of that was brought downstairs I had to take all that to the car. Then I had to return to the house for: a banana (mid-morning snack), cell phone, magazine for M. to read, and to deposit extraneous credit cards that don't need to be going to S.A. Then I double checked the doors to make sure they were locked and secure.

Actually the whole adventure started at about 6:22AM this morning when I decided to run around my yard chasing a huge rabbit away from my tomato plants. I have no idea if bunnies like tomatoes. And I can't quite remember if it's bunnies or deer that don't like marigolds. So I ran around the yard in my nightgown clapping my hands and yelling at a rabbit who thought that if it just sat really still I wouldn't see it. I might be big, but I'm not a T Rex. It eventually disappeared through the hole in the fence. A hole I have been vowing to cover with chicken wire of something similar for about 2 years now. M. watched the whole thing from the upstairs window. I think he enjoyed the show of me looking like a fool.

So a lot of nervous energy that now has to sit at her desk and write emails to people who probably shouldn't even be in college. What else might I be doing today, you ask? I will go to the bank to get some cash, get some light sandwichesque lunch, teach a class, drive to the parking lot where my car will be for the weekend, take a taxi to the airport with hopefully everything one might need for a long weekend in Uruguay and hopefully get on a plane to Dulles to get on a plane to Buenes Aires that continues on to Montevideo. Whew!