List making and Christmas lessons

Remember that episode of Saved By the Bell where Jessie gets addicted to caffeine pills while she struggles to keep up (in high school, honestly) while pursuing the girl band with Kelly and Lisa. When Zach catches her trying to pop some pills to get ready for their "gig" she declares she needs them, "there's no time, there's never any time" (followed shortly by the infamous breakdown embodied in the lines "I'm so excited.... i'm so.... scared).

In anycase, i feel for Jessie. I may not have caffeine pills, but these days my intake of coffee is steadily increasing as i try to get more done faster. No, its not that things have finally picked up in my lax school schedule (though this week is surprisingly full actually), rather i have only 3 more days to prepare for my trip for India! As many of you can imagine, my life is currently full of lists - on my desk at work, stuck up on the fridge, on the back of the door so i wont forget anything when i leave the apartment, taped next to my desk at home, and obviously spinning in my head. This is the week of lists and teaching Christmas to an entired school of Japanese middle schoolers. I'm a wee bit distracted, to say the least.

Because i'm leaving for India in 3 days! Holy Tits!