J'ai hâte d'y aller! The date is so soon! I'm really getting excited but I'm also daunted by the to-do's that remain. Hard to do my job and focus on preparing as well.

We're in the throes of a decision: in what village should we spend our winter and spring? Top candidates: Nice and Aix en provence. We were leaning toward Nice (close to sea, close to Italy, close to Alps) but are now gravitating toward Aix (university town, very french, the heart of provence that we love dearly). We hope to decide before next week.

Signed up for 3Jam last week. Soon (Thursday...why do the english think the days of the week merit capitalization?!?!?) our home phone number of 25 years will become virtual. Looking into what it takes to unlock my iPhone so I can use it with orange.fr or some such provider. Just cancelled Netflix (they won't ship overseas and they restrict on-demand to US ip addresses).

Starting to feel real. We have rented our house for the year to a wonderful german couple with kids. Fantastic!
Just committed to our first accomodations in France: 2 months in Paris on Rue Mandar (2nd arrondisement).
Just bought ONE-WAY tickets to europe. We're going to fly to Dublin and spend some time (~ 10 days) in the U.K. (Ireland, Scotland, London) before wandering down to Paris.