I'm leaving for Japan at 12:30pm on Sunday, so today I'm in the middle of a late night packing session. The downstairs living room at my parent's house is still a complete disaster area. They'll be thrilled in the morning.

I learned a few new tidbits that will be useful from my friend Doug, who just arrived in Japan last month as a JET. Like, it takes 2 weeks to get the foreigner registration card (ID), so you need to get a special form in order to get a mobile phone and get a bank account, and some other things.

I'm pretty excited and nervous at the same time. Life will be quite a bit different. Right now though, concentration is on packing and how I'll get the baggage from the airport, to Tokyo station to pick up the key from the contact at my new company, and then to the apartment. It'll be a pretty crazy day on Monday.

Recently I feel like I've been pretty busy. Things have been going well with Reiko and I spend a good amount of time talking to her every day. Though because I'm talking to her a lot I'm not doing a whole lot else. I have been able to study Japanese some but working on jsXe and such has been pushed out.

There is also the problem with how we will be together and what to do in the future. My parents don't seem too keen on the idea of me going to Japan. And Reiko isn't in a situation where she could go to school here easily. Even if I wanted to go, I would have to find a job in Japan and I wouldn't have many guarantees that I would like it.

And that is all compounded by the fact that I have to move this weekend. So I'm frantically trying to organize so that I can move this weekend. It's also stressful because I like the place I am now and I don't want to move, and because where I'm moving is farther from work and most things that I do outside the house. I don't know what the commute will be like in the morning.

So currently I just have to work on the move since that is the most imminent thing. Working on one thing at a time is just so much easier.