A few updates and such:
My plane reservations are now as finalized as the one for the hotel. All that's left is getting a pass to E3, and I'm good to go.
I will be getting about $120 back from the government (i.e. from overpaid income tax), and that will automatically be going to E3. As for the Japan thing, I just turned in the rest of the prolonged application today.*
Today someone asked about sending a package to Bangladesh—but he didn't actually send it. It wasn't dirt, anyway. Sorry, Luigison.
And a couple of late responses:
I intend to call everyone by his or her real name. However, I think that it could be fun to use our Internet names at the show to attract people's attention and/or just to weird them out. (Because we're so used to them that I bet we could pull off using them pretty naturally.)
Chup, Luigison, and Sapph: Yeah, I remember that Sapphira used to live in California. I guess I was just thinking in terms of one shipment per member, with Luigison taking the California one. But I didn't know that Fifth lives there, so I guess it doesn't matter, anyway. Oh, and in addition to that, David lives in Sacramento (where Sapph used to live and where I was born). Will he be going to E3?
Oh, and GoombaDoom, too. But I guess I won't get to see him . . . :(
*One of the reasons I got up at 2:30 a.m. today (yes, I'm approximately dead tired right now) was to write a letter in Japanese to my future host family.
“Hey, lemme borrow your bike. C’mon, I’ll give you some chips.â€