nah, my students are around 20. they can fend for themselves. they'd probably had a better chance at harming me then their mommy. plus, i'm a boxer.
dagmaraka wrote:nah, my students are around 20. they can fend for themselves. they'd probably had a better chance at harming me then their mommy. plus, i'm a boxer.
Dag, I'd like to mix it with you, anytime.
Wonder what Mrs McTag has to say for that...
She knows little about boxing.....
oh, a fellow boxer? bring it! next a2k meet, bring your gloves!
Marquis of Queensberry rules? No kicking, biting or gouging?
i'll try. i'm a girl though. we do scratch and bite. scratching will be taken care of by the gloves. biting...oh well. you're tough enough.
Just bought the DVD of 'Professor' starring Shammi Kapoor and Kalpana. It was filmed in Darjeeling. I think Salzburg, Austria in the 'Sound of Music' is much prettier as the Alps are not as steep as the Himalayas.
Leaving this Sunday. I would perhaps be excited, but the Homeland Security Department is making my life into the seventh layer of hell, they froze all pending applications for anything having to do with immigration, and that totally screwed me over. I am exhausted, burnt out, outright depressed, don't know if I will have troubles getting back to the country or even if I will get back to the country. But, I'm still flying to India this Sunday for almost 5 weeks. Ugh. It should be better while I'm there.
Dag--
Leaving Sunday....doesn't give you much time.
Can you get letters from your landlord and someone on your faculty testifying that you are a responsible foreign student concentrating on peaceful resolutions and that you wouldn't think of committing a terrorist act?
Hold your dominion.
She's threatened me with violence. She's a dangerous woman :wink:
Dag, I was so sorry I had to rush off and leave you today. It's been a crappy go..... it can only get better.
<by the way, I believe I left my cell phone there in Cambridge where it is most useful>
better now. i had lunch with bosses assistant and my intern and we bitched about the trip and the whole mess and i went to "Theatre Sports" - which is an improv contest between two teams.
Am almost poised, certainly over the psycho breakdown. phew. sorry you had to witness that. that should happen in a dark cold damp deep dungeon. what comforts me is that they can't kill me at a U.S. entry point, and if I emerge somewhere alive, I can deal with the rest.
Whee!
Noddy24 wrote:Dag--
Leaving Sunday....doesn't give you much time.
Can you get letters from your landlord and someone on your faculty testifying that you are a responsible foreign student concentrating on peaceful resolutions and that you wouldn't think of committing a terrorist act?
Hold your dominion.
It's as sorted out as it can be. I *should* be ok. But the game isn't fair. They change rules during the march, as we Slovaks say.
I'll keep my fingers crossed. Unfortunately this is a world where Slovac pessimism may ensure survival.
dagmaraka wrote:certainly over the psycho breakdown. phew. sorry you had to witness that. that should happen in a dark cold damp deep dungeon.
Cant speak for LK, but one thing friends are there for is so you dont have to have your psycho breakdowns in a dark cold damp deep dungeon. Breakdowns are bad enough as they are, without having to feel like you should be hiding in some cold secret place of shame for them!
We're all only human... and the more sympathetic for it. Who'd want to be friends with super(wo)man?
yes, but i've been embarassingly cranky and moody for a few weeks now. i should find a way to deal with this uncertainty better, as it will be a part of my life for the next 2-3 months at least.
it also makes me homesick like i wasn't since perhaps i was a child. actually, i don't remember ever being this homesick. wishing to be home every now and then, seeing family, friends, sure... but i have this gaping palpable need to be home, safe, see my mama. nothing has made me feel lonelier than the department of homeland security. ack, i better go back to packing.
Will you be going home for Christmas?
Dasha - you should certainly not feel embarassed. Perhaps I am not a good friend/housemate, but I haven't noticed you being terribly cranky. A little stressed out, yes. But, who wouldn't be?
So, you're going. I was hoping you'd have decided not to.
nah. i couldn't have a better housemate and friend. that's why i come back like a boomerang. let's hope they let me this time.
leaving in 1/2 hour. ugh. my suitcase is 70 pounds - it dawned on me to weigh it this morning. repacking frantically. oh, the trying life of Dasha.
