Heading North to the South

In a week from today I'm heading to Texas to work for 2 months. I'm happy to be going somewhere with new horizons to explore, but I am in the "so much to do, oh god nothing is working, this trip is going to be a disaster, one week to pull all this work together" stage. Everything is very unorganised and up-in-the-air - I am not even sure where I'm staying when I get there. I will be working at some labs at University of Texas, Arlington. That's just about all I know. I don't think that's helping the ease the pre-travel nerves, and my lack of enthusiasm about the trip isn't being helped by knowing what I'll be missing while I'm overseas. I'll miss: Christmas (and work christmas party - lame, but I like them), New Years, my best friend's 30th, my surrogate brother's 20th, and my mum's 60th birthday. Plus a million little things that at the moment I see no upside to missing.



Some things about the place I'll be staying (Arlington, TX):
- Arlington is the largest city in the United States without a public transit system - this is a direct quote from Wikipedia. Not only is it a direct quote, it's from the top section - the HIGHLIGHTS, if you will. - Arilngton is between Dallas and Fort Worth (map link)
- It contains the International Bowling Hall of Fame, Cowboys Stadium (with the two biggest high definition displays in the world - 53 m apiece), and most importantly, a Six Flags theme park- There are two pools at UTA, but the indoors one is only available to students - paying non-members can use the outdoor pool only under supervision of members.- On a related note, it'll be about 2-15 degrees in the month of December.
- Two brothers from Pantera grew up in Arlington
- These are the only interesting things I currently have to say about Arlington.