The end of the tunnel is getting closer in more ways than one. Monday night I FINALLY completed my revisions. I sent them off to my committee member who approved the changes. Now I am waiting on my supervisor to do the last scan before I can send it off to Grad Studies. Since Monday night I've developed an almost obsessive compulsion to skim my pdf file for any formatting errors that I may have missed that would hold up my thesis from getting passed. I think I've flipped through my thesis about four times today!

My emotions this week have been very up and down. There are times that I am so excited to be in Ghana that I wish I were on the plane NOW, and then there are moments where I get very sad about the prospect of leaving my family, friends and familiar comforts. It's made me wake up quite a few times during the night in a dead panic. All the time too I have this constant rerun in my head of what I still need to do before I go, and I can't make the voices stop, so to speak......

I am muting those voices this weekend, starting tomorrow night. I am going camping with my closest circle of friends this weekend at Blackstrap Lake, and it is something that I am really looking forward to. Other than my trip to England, and that small reprieve at my parents' cabin, I really haven't had an opportunity this summer to step away from my life. I am so pumped about having my own cocoon in my own little tent, burning marshmallows and drinking beer around the fire that I almost can't contain myself. I am sure that by the end of the weekend the waterworks will be pouring because it'll be the last time I'll see some of them before I leave. It is going to be very very hard to work tomorrow!