I just got medically cleared for Peace Corps!!!

As I've said in my previous blog, I've been nominated to teach English and work with community developement in Asia. I just found out that I've been medically cleared for service in July 2008!!! I am still awaiting the official invitation, but now I am 99% of the way through the application process (that's taken me roughly 2 years to complete). I'm keeping this post short and sweet, because I just wanted to make the ever-so-brief announcement--stay tuned for more updates!!!

It's official...

May 30th I will be quitting my job at Williams Kastner & Gibbs PLLC. They have been so kind as to employ me for the past 2 1/2 years, but the time has come for me to move to greener pastures. Where might that be, I'm sure you're asking? Where indeed? Well, after I move out of my gorgeous 2 bedroom apartment on Lake Union with views of the city and Gas Works Park (sigh) and cram all of my incredibly useless yet painstakingly accumulated belongings into my parents house I will be leaving for Chicago on June 6th through June 9th to hang out with friends there, and then it's off to Europe! Run-on sentences aside, I will be staying with family (whom I've only just met) from my father's side for the first week, then my Dutch friends in Amsterdam the next week, followed by a brief sojourn to Dublin, then Edinburgh, then finally London again for my final week. I'll be returning on June 23rd to pack another suitcase for my 2 1/2 year stint serving somewhere (I'll find out in May) in Asia with The Peace Corps.

Ah! Now it becomes clear (my reader undoubtedly says), that's why James is writing this blog! Neither because he suffers from any sort of foolish belief in posterity, nor because his vanity has increased to such a level that he actually believes people care about his preposterous ponderings, but he will truly be gone from modernity for an extended period of time. A period of time, which if the past three years are any indication, people will get married, people will die, people will be born and James will be living in a jungle teaching English to those deserving youth in post-colonized ruined countries...while continuing to speak in third person, no doubt.

So, there you have it o loyal reader! The long, short and midway succeeded of it. This blog will be my only connection to you my friends, family, acquaintances and curious voyeurs for at least the next 2 1/2 years. Get used to the language:)