First contact with PC since January 10th

Steven Jacobson from the Placement Office contacted me today:

Dear Elliott,

I hope this email finds you well! I'm writing to you from the Peace Corps Placement Office in Washington, DC. We are busy reviewing and evaluating your Peace Corps application to be sure that everything looks good for you to be approved for service. I reviewed your file this morning and I identified one item that needed follow-up.

Then he went on to say how he needed my transcript once I graduated and that certain things needed to be on it. He also asked if my earliest departure date had changed. I responded that I could leave as early as August 1st, 2007. My plans for this summer are to spend a month (June) with my family and friends in Texas and then one month (July) with Kristofer, and then I'm off.
I'm anticipating not leaving on exactly August 1st, so my stay in San Jose will likely be more than one month.

I'm just very excited that they contacted me. Apparently they don't contact you unless there's something wrong with your file, so I guess it was good that I was incommunicado for so long. I'm just naturally very anxious about getting more and more information.

Mr. Jacobson, as he told me in a reply email, is not my PO, but my real PO (a "she") will contact me in the next few weeks. I don't think this will be an invitation, but probably just a "Hey, I'm your placement officer congratulations on getting into the Peace Corps ... so I see you're from Texas... " and so on.

I want to get my invitation at least by early June, because I want to start planning my going-away party. It's going to be fun, for me at least, because hopefully everyone from my past will show up. FYI, it will be in Austin in the apartment of Andy, Jessica, and Kara/Lauren.