Serious Gravy there.

Planning on hanging with my good PJ fan friend The Jen Two at the PJ shows...She seems to have assembled quite the entourage as well; for transportation in Seattle they are renting a minivan...Actually it would be more correct to say I am renting a minivan, as all of them are under 25 (great, just what I need to pamper my old man-ness...hehe) and it would cost them more. Depending on exactly who all comes (many of them are from overseas as well) it will be six to eight of us total. Split the rental that many ways and it's cheap :)

Anyway...so many variable inherent in this trip. First, the flight won't be 100% until the day I leave (or don't leave!) [fingers crossed]. Then of course, tickets...not too worried about *where* I am in the venues just yet, as long as I AM in the venues. Upgrades are always a possibility and unless I luck out on a prime taping seat, I won't bother rolling. I figure...flying ~5700 miles, rocking out is only appropriate for three nights. The portable may still be in the shop anyway--i haven't gotten a chance to box it up and ship it out for repairs as of yet.

Now...where to stay in Seattle. This is where it gets confusing...mainly because I don't know what the "entourage" as whole plans, I'm not in contact with them, and the knowledge that I will require to stay at Fort Lewis for at least my last night to make catching my Space A Military Aircraft Command ("free") flight home from there...What to do in Seattle? that one is easy really...I still haven't seen Jimi's Grave, the soundgarden, gasworks park, the Singles House...and there's always Pike Street Market, the Space Needle...and hell it might even be worth it to go through the Explore Music Project "Musuem" again. Also...excellent chance to head up to Canada I suppose...Also also, assuming I am ble to catch the first flight back to Oki from Seattle (again, fingers crossed) I'll only be in the Seattle/Pugent Sound Area for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. That's only three days in such an awesome area with other PJ fans...I hardly think I'll get bored. Of course...Seattle could very well be packed like sardines---apparently there's a chance the World Series may be held there this year (i don't follow baseball so it's like uhhhh whatever)....that could be very very bad...

I'm soooooo anxious. Seven weeks until I plan on flying out. I can't really get on the Space A list for at *least* another few weeks I think...yet I keep feeling like I'm running behind, that I'm not doing something really really important. In fact it's stressing me out that there are all these things still hanging in the wind.

I get ten days with my family. Dad's gotten three emails from me about this trip yet...no reply yet. He may still be in North Carolina--he had to go there again fro work. In fact, the first time he went out there, he missed me by mere months. Oh well.
I know he is going to think I'm only coming now because of PJ. In a way, he's right. If PJ wasn't coming, I might wait and come for thanksgiving, or not at all. But why should I feel bad that PJ is being the catalyst for this trip? Better than not coming at all right? I think I'm balancing it out well enough too. I mean, if I flew in on the Tuesday before Bridge, it would be like a slap in their faces--"I'm only coming because my favorite band is here and I don't care enough to spend time with you" but this trip is SOOOOOOO not like that. 

I dunno.

I am just so super super excited. Everytime I think about it, first off, I'm still in sort of denial and a dreamlike view of it. Secondly...well shoot there is no second I still can't believe I'm going to do it.

Another thing I was thinking about on the planning/timing. Because I'm taking SCUBA right now, I haven't enrolled in classes at U Maryland. The next semester/quarter/whatever the hell they call 'em here since they are so short I WILLenroll...meaning October is the really the last chance I'll have to leave like this. It would be really nice to go home for Christmas, but I honestly can't see myself lucky enough to get space on a MAC flight home then...and paying my way? forget about it!!

It may sound like I am trying to convince myself and make myself feel more sound about all this...as Akhams Razor states, "The simplest solution is usually the correct one".

Time to look into renting that minivan a bit mroe closely. 

current mood:  anxious
current music: The Devlins 09.15.98 

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