Haze I have been meaning to ask, you will still be able to post to the Dope from Korea, won’t you? As much as I, along with everyone else, hates to see you forced to leave for a year, if you are still posting I am sure that we will all be here to support you through your exile, and to jubilantly celebrate your return. If you are not going to be able to post, then I am going to become very sad as well. In a way I envy your going “home” to spend a year with your parents. I haven’t seen my mom for over five years, and I haven’t seen my dad sine 1998, and I would love to be able to spend a year just being with them.
Then again, I am much older than you, and so are my friends, so if I did that, when I came home it would not be much different than when I left. I did want to tell you that I am sorry that you have to leave, we have stupid laws here, and I am sad that you are a victim of one of them.
As God as my witness, I read that as I think I want to live as a woman again.
And I didn’t even blink.
Am I the only one who thinks that Haze isn’t leaving? I mean she may be leaving the USA, but the Dope is global, baby! She MUST come back to Chicago for her PhD, though. As I have written, so it must be.
I did 2 solid hours of work on my library project. The interface is actually a lot friendlier than I first thought. I have 34 more hours to go.
Work in a.m. Money, money, money. I totted up my gross pay–no idea how to figure out the net (no, don’t tell me). It’s going to be good. Thank God. If I can just get through grad school, I can then work a bit more. At some point, I need to look for a library job, but we are drowning in bills at this point and I need money fast. Fastest way is to work more as a nurse.
Oh, and Annoying Ethnic Coworker is speaking to me again. No idea why. God knows I didn’t change. It is nice to have peace at work.
double post. Oh, bite me–we’ve all done it.
I meant to share something that I think is really cool with you all. My friend’s daughter is getting married. This is the fundamentalist, home-school Christian, anti-evolution friend I have (yes, she’s a token-I can claim one such friend). Anyhoo, her daughter used to babysit for #2 son oh, since birth. She’s getting married in April. They are doing this on a shoestring budget (which, now that I am older, I completely am behind. Use the money you would have wasted on an expensive white dress to buy a house or start a savings account, but I digress). They are not doing much in the way of flowers etc, but she had a great idea for the centerpieces for the tables (which is what I wanted to share with you. god, I run on, don’t I?)
Picture a hurricane lamp, with green moss placed at the bottom, with a white candle–place on top of a mirror in the middle of the table and around the hurricane lamp, place twigs of bridal wreath spirea. It won’t be blooming yet (that’s June) but it will be leafing out. The green moss and the green buds with the white candle and table cloth. I think it’ll look very fresh, different and spring. Verdant comes to mind. A lot depends on the size of the hurricane lamps and the candles (too small and the effect will be lost). For the altar and the head table, she will have the candles and bunches of white tulips, just opening. I think it’ll be gorgeous. Thoughts?
Thanks for your thoughts. No worries, I first joined the Dope from Seoul, so I know for a fact I can post from there.
It will be nice to be with my parents for awhile. If it weren’t for them I’d try harder to stay here. I’m sure I could find some way to not go back if I were desperate enough - some less legal than others, I suppose - but when all is said and done, I owe them a lot, and my friends - well, I’ll miss them painfully, but they’ll still be here when I get back.
Still, if I were offered a full-time job and a visa I’d stay in a heartbeat. Heh.
What does that mean? Are you reporting me to a mod, Beantown boy? Your mother smells of elderberries! I shall taunt you at my leisure, you abbreviated moniker person you!
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No worries, I first joined the Dope from Seoul, so I know for a fact I can post from there.