Blogust & Everything After

Just a quick crazy story....I was sitting in class today and I got this sinking feeling in my gut...I didn't know where my passport was. While the prof was speaking I was desperately rummaging in my bag and couldn't find it. I was seriously freaking out. I'm leaving in about 10 days and although I could probably get a passport quickly by paying some crazy rush fees there is no way I'm gonna get a Chinese visitor Visa as well. Needless to say I didn't concentrate very much in the last half hour of class. The day before I had been at the University copy center making photocopies of my passport to send to the Taiwan Visa people....and I hadn't seen it since. Immediately after class I booted over there and to my dismay the person working had a sign up that said they wouldn't be back for another 40 mins....it was lunch time. So I paced and paced and luckily she showed up for a minute and she had found my passport. So everything is now o.k. but I was crapping my pants earlier.....