Almost done

Today is Sunday.  I have a final paper due tomorrow, an exam on Tuesday.  Wednesday, I pack.  Thursday the 6th, I leave for a ten day adventure in Borneo.  I return to Singapore on December 16, when I will occupy my last day with another concert, a trip to the Singapore night safari, and maybe a movie.  I spend whatever's left of that night at the airport, and board my flight home at 7:20 am.  I have a two hour layover in Tokyo, Japan, then fly at 5:20 pm to San Fransisco, arriving at 9:20 am of the same day, eight hours before I left for S.F.  I wait six hours, then board a flight to Portland, where I arrive at 6:03pm on United Flight 0554.  Hopefully someone will be there to pick me up (hint).

The most interesting part of all of that will undoubtedly be my trip to Borneo.  I'm paying an absurd amount of money to be escorted to the top of Mt. Kinabalu, the tallest mountain in SE Asia - it's taller than Mt. Hood.  After that, I take a bus east to the city of Sandakan, which serves as home base for an exploration of the Kinabatangan river.  The goal: see a lot of monkeys.  (There are also pygmy elephants!)

I'll publish pictures of that fun event after it's happened.  Then, my trip and this record will be over.  On balance, I'm glad I'm going home.

(now to go write that essay...)