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Volans - Aug 23, 2005 8:34:55 am PDT #453 of 10002
move out and draw fire

Are these people you're going to have to bail out of jail later?

Possibly. Well, not me or the DH, since neither of us are working in the consular section this tour. But the embassy, yeah, maybe. Depending if the Greeks decide to enforce the law. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. The Mormons hit the hospital near my house a LOT, and the Greek police will tend to arrest them there, I think mainly because the priests at the hospital call them.

(And to be really technical, the embassy can't bail out Americans. We could take them magazines and make sure they get a phone call and legal counsel. But their families/church probably would send bail.)

I neglected to identify myself as affiliated with the embassy, however.


Gudanov - Aug 23, 2005 8:37:38 am PDT #454 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

I can't say I like being proselytized, but I'm glad I can be.


Gudanov - Aug 23, 2005 8:39:35 am PDT #455 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

Those are some fine-looking children, Gud. And Leif really seems to hide his true nature well.

Leif really is very sweet, he just has a talent for mischief.


Cashmere - Aug 23, 2005 8:39:42 am PDT #456 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.

I neglected to identify myself as affiliated with the embassy, however.

I wonder if that would have done any good. Probably not.

And to be really technical, the embassy can't bail out Americans. We could take them magazines and make sure they get a phone call and legal counsel.

Duly noted. Um...uh...not for any reason, though.


Jesse - Aug 23, 2005 8:42:32 am PDT #457 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Leif really is very sweet, he just has a talent for mischief.

I just meant mischievous! My father is completely unable to claim he wasn't a smart-ass as a kid, because you can see it in ever single photo of him.


Steph L. - Aug 23, 2005 8:43:00 am PDT #458 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

For Teppy: [link]

Heh. Didn't NPR do a piece on that this morning? I heard it when my alarm went off (some mornings I get my RDA of irony without even getting out of bed) and just giggled. Then I picked up the phone and called in to work and went back to sleep.

Now it's The Beautiful Ones by Prince, which always mellows me out.

I made a mishmash Prince mix CD for the car, and I've been listening to it nonstop for about 2 weeks.


Maria - Aug 23, 2005 8:43:27 am PDT #459 of 10002
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

Leif really is very sweet, he just has a talent for mischief.

Gud, you do have an amazing capacity for understatement.


Jesse - Aug 23, 2005 8:44:04 am PDT #460 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Thanks to talk of Prince and covers, I have Nothing Compares 2 U in my head, but it's alternating between Sinead and Prince.


Volans - Aug 23, 2005 8:44:36 am PDT #461 of 10002
move out and draw fire

I can't say I like being proselytized, but I'm glad I can be.

Yep. There's a Ministry of Religion here. I live across from the "Greek Pentagon" (their Defense department, which, um, has four sides) and there's a big church on the Pentagon grounds.

Good-looking children! Go you!


JenP - Aug 23, 2005 8:46:24 am PDT #462 of 10002

That's fantastic, Allyson.

My goodness. Gudanov kids are so. cute.

My father is completely unable to claim he wasn't a smart-ass as a kid, because you can see it in ever single photo of him.

Oh, man. This is my sister. Every picture of her screams imp. Of course, to me she was more unholy terror. But to the rest of the world, mostly just imp.