Still scuttling about trying to get ready for the Trip. :D

I'm nervous, nyan! I want to go on the Trip more than anything right now--for a hundred different reasons--but I'm nervous more about telling my parents, "Hey, fuck greed and fuck a stationary lifestyle" than I am about walking down the side of a highway alone with only an iron staff to protect me should my common sense and instinct fail me. In fact, I quite look forward to the latter; it excites me! But the former frightens me. I'm great at talking to total strangers. I've got no problem chatting them up at all. But I sound nearly brain-challenged when I'm talking about something more important than the weather to someone I have to see every day. Perhaps because I'm afraid of becoming a daily running joke; I've done it before. >_O Yargh. Human fear of embarrassment, I s'pose.

At any rate, still making preparations. :3