Estimated Departure Date: 7 weeks and counting

Mike's been off work for three weeks now and cannot believe how little time there still is in a day. We've been SO BUSY. I'm trying to cram as much in-person work as possible before I go. Both of us are trying to cram in a year's worth of appointments. We're trying to see all of our friends at least once each before we go. We have to clean out as much of our stuff as possible, and sell a ton of stuff on Craigslist. Mike has a lot of his own personal projects he wants to work on. Eventually, we'll need to start figuring what to bring and what to leave behind, buy anything else we need for the RV, and make any modifications we need to make. And, the fun stuff, we're trying to cram in as many of the San Francisco must-dos before we go, too.

It's amazing how quickly the time flies, and how little of it there seems to be.

We've hit the Premature Nostalgia phase, where we're starting to miss San Francisco before we even leave. We're trying to at least do all the SF things that we'd regret not doing if we left, one of which is taking swing dance classes which we now plan to do once a week until we go. We've also been exploring different neighborhoods, and hitting up a lot of the restaurants we've been meaning to go to. The exploration also leads to plenty of confrontations with the difficult things about San Francisco, too, though, all of which I will not miss. During these moments, despite the nostalgia, I look forward to a breath of fresh air that doesn't smell like pee.

And we're also starting to realize how much we'll miss all our friends. Our friends are awesome. I think that's going to be the hardest part about leaving.

As of right now, I don't have a night free for almost four solid weeks, and the days are almost as full. Mike's still sleep deprived, despite not having to get up to go to work every day. It's perplexing and chaotic but fun and exhilarating, and every day makes me more excited.