my parents are almost sure they're not coming for graduation i wish they'd decide. first they weren't, then they are, now they're not again. schools at home have been shut till april 6th and moe thinks they'll extend the quarantine so perhaps the term will end as late as june this year, so they're probably not going to be able to leave singapore during exam week. it would actually be a great relief if they didn't because then i can get out of the darn thing and pack up and go off somewhere else like kacheow joel in stanford or something, and not worry about whether housing did get my application for a room for the parents and to make transportation arrangements for them. i really don't want to go for graduation but i feel sad that they won't meet nohrnberg and bob reeder and see what uva looks like. the grad students i had lunch with asked me what i liked abt charlottesville, and i couldn't even begin to tell them how much i love this place and its people, even those who are lost to me now.

i'm making a list of things i have to do in the next few weeks, like call the cellphone company to terminate my account and wrangle about returning a deposit they all seem to have forgotten about, and how to ship my four years of assorted accumulated junk home, and also to find someplace else to move my journal, or someone with some extra room to host me, because i just got notice from the university that our computing accounts are terminated "shortly before graduation". i was going to move it off to dreamhost.com but poach said it was way too expensive and i don't want to use one of those annoying pop-up infested free hosts so someone should recommend something reliable and affordable to me! maybe i'll give up journalling and get a free blog thing at blogger or something and save money. except that, those blogs are so standardised! and they're only blogs, not much room for piling in the rest of your life. or i could give up journalling. ah whatever. i'll think about it tomorrow.