Blogging from the airport!

I'm in Newark right now, typing this on a program which will let me upload whenever I get a network connection again. This is partly a test-post, since I'll probably be doing the same thing from my internet-less apartment. My goal is be to write blogs at night, and then upload in the mornings once I get to the Academy.

So far things have been fine. For those of you who I haven't been talking to in person, I have to pay the remainder of my rent for my apartment in cash upon my arrival in Rome. Foolishly, that didn't sink in until, oh, yesterday - way too late to order Euros from the bank. So I ended up getting a bazillionty dollars of traveler's checks yesterday, which I would then have to cash at Fiumicino in one of the exchange kiosks, therefore pretty much guaranteeing myself a gouging in fees and a crappy rate, not to mention doing so in full view of curious cabbies and various riff-raff. But when I arrived at the Indy airport, I realized there was indeed a cash exchange there, and if you exchanged over $500, there was no fee. So I did that instead, though I'm sure the rate was still really bad. Plus, this way I won't have to pocket all that money in front of so many people, which I think is what was really worrying me anyway. I think I may have cleaned him out of Euros, though, haha.

Right now I'm trying to load up a few audiobooks onto my mp3 player to keep me entertained. I'm already halfway thorough one of the books I brought - Skin Tight, by Carl Hiaasen. Pretty dang funny, enough that I'm trying to pace myself through it. But it probably won't last me till dinnertime on the plane. Otherwise, I've got a Games Magazine, my Blue Guide, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon, which will be good, but less easy reading than the Hiaasen, so it might wait til I get to Rome unless I get desperate.

Okay, guess that's it for now. I'm going to get up and stretch my legs!