How did you know it was Thailand?
Did I ever tell you how my best friend's father bought her mother (again, Thailand) for 2 rifles and $50? Or the time that the embassy security officer had to break down the door of an embassy apartment (again, Thailand) because the husband had locked the wife out as he was hell-bent on living with the maid?
No reflection upon the individuals concerned
No worries. I have my own concerns about him for this and other reasons. It's one of the reasons I want to do a little extra in the way of looking out for her. At least it's only his second marriage, so he's not a new-wife-every-two-years guy. And they've been dating for a while, and both speak English.
We used to get American men in the consular section in Romania who were cranky that "mail-order bride" didn't mean she was delivered to their door by post. The engaged couple would sometimes meet for the first time in the consular office, and would almost never share a language. We'd mention that she was going to be his 8th wife, and she'd shrug. Then we'd just really hope she'd survive the two years until she could dump him and still be USian.
Meeting with Job Guy this morning. It was rescheduled from Wednesday. This day should be the final decision about whether they want me or not.
I'm surprised how nervous I am.
{{{Bev}}}
Good luck, Cashmere!
I'm having my first "dinner party" on Sunday for my dad's birthday. I'm so excited! Gotta figure out what to fix. Gonna get to use the Happy Birthday plate that goes with my dishes (yes, I'm a BIG dork).
packs up a huge cart of ~ma and rolls it toward Cashmere
I can't deal with laptops and their tiny little keys!
Easily solved. External keyboard and mouse for home use. Have them plugged into a usb hub, perhaps along with a printer, connect it up when you set the laptop down, and voila!
Some laptops have docking stations, but generally I don't recommend them unless one is hooking up more than a keyboard and mouse.
It's a couple transferring from a SE Asian country. He's the gov't employee, and basically on his retirement tour; she's his wife of 5 months, a citizen of the SE Asian country
Oh boy does that sound familiar -- when my in-laws were stationed in Seoul, my MiL was one of maybe 3 middle-aged white women on the base. Most of the rest of the senior staff had moved on to their second, younger, Asian wives.
~~~~~Bev & family~~~~~
~~~~~Sean/S~~~~~
{{{Beverly}}} I'm glad the fever is going down. Continued ~ma to StE.
Job~ma Cashmere.
I'm waiting for Teacup Guy to wake up enough to call about the job. The wait is killing me. ION, I get to pick up my car today! I just might hug it.
Caboodles of job~ma to you, Cash!
(continual non-stop ongoing vibeage for Bev and Sean/S and Calli and everybody)
The older-man-younger-woman thing is pretty common in Athens, except without the cross-cultural aspect. Whenever we see one of these couples, my co-worker, a man with grandkids, says, "I will never understand that - I've already raised children once. Thinking about it just makes me tired."
Curly brackets right backatcha, Sean, you and S. And y'all know I use non-fancy parentheses as a rule, so breaking out the curly brackets is a big deal for me.
Sincerely, I hope everything works out well and S is healthy again very soon.
JZ, how are you doing today? Keeping occupied and the boredom at bay? A former boss of mine spent the last 10 weeks of her first pregnancy not only on bedrest but on her left side. She was allowed to come downstairs once in the morning to lie on the couch, and to go to the bathroom. She wasn't allowed to walk to the mailbox, or to get her own drinks and snacks from the kitchen. I visited as often as I could, and was impressed at how well she kept the cranky at bay.
Her little girl was perfect, and a joy, as was her younger sister, with whom the bedrest routine was not required.
So no boredom vibes to you!
Cashmere, all possible jobma vibes to you. He'd be a stupidhead not to hire you.
Raq--I suppose this is why they call it the diplomatic service, huh? Because I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to refrain from expressing my opinion
of such shenannigans. As well as, oh, lots of other government shenannigans and asshattery. Thank goodness we have actually diplomatic people like you in the dip corps, and not dips like me.
I need to get off the computer and consume more coffee and possibly put on clothes.
