04-28-04

Mixed thoughts

I am getting mixed reactions from those i have told about the job. Some think it is wonderful, others are frightened due to the increasing turmoil in that region. Samira was excited, and i think above all if she was sceptical then perhaps i would rethink it. Qatar is a penninsula right off of saudi. The only thing is, her parents are trying to come to the US to escape the violence there…or so the reasoning goes from others. Qatar doesn’t really have involvement in the current situation, besides minor tifts with the US for covering what they are doing in Iraq… in a very untypical US fashion, instead of us “liberating” and “playing with poofay bunnies” we are pounding and besieging and killing…soundbites not typically used by our own media.

So here my stomach turns, i would love the experience and i know if it is offered to me i would go, but part of me is hesitant, no matter what my political views are, no matter how much i agree or disagree with our governments choices, no matter how open-minded i am I will still be viewed as an American, in all its stereotyped glory. Its not necessarily a bad thing, emotionally draining after a time, until it puts my life at risk…will that happen in qatar who knows? Who knows a year from now where the world will be…Maybe just being an American in Pittsburgh, Houston, Boston, New Brighton, in America in general will be dangerous to our lives. Maybe it already is and we are just to naive or busy to notice.

04-28-04

dear mom, please send martinis…

I almost peed my self at work today. Quite literally, from excitment, much like a dog would i suppose :). But anyway… I sent my resume to many many many companies during my tedious job search, one of which was Carnegie Mellon (the place i would go to if i had the money, But alas, alack i am broke and even the loan people would have had a good laugh with that one)…i digress. Thinking they would laugh at it and delete it much as the other sixty eight some places have due to my lack of degree, i quickly forgot about it and got a job playing musical chairs with forty-somethings instead of web code.

Today i was waiting to hear back from a few apartments in Mt. Lebanon so when my phone rang in the middle of work i answered it. Here it was a lady calling about my application… that i submited a month ago…. for the job in qatar. I have an interview tomorrow. I think i would definetly pee myself if i get the job. Qatar, holy geez.

But it is a dry country, dry as in no liquor, no vodka, no martinis… as in none. Hopefully they have wonderful, delicious shoe stores… or i’d go nuts.

Not a dry country…Mt. Lebanon, not a country at all, has a few apartments i am going to be looking at tomorrow. yay. and on friday, yay. plus i need to get my resume together for the John Casablanca’s job tomorrow. yay. RA interview went well, so if worse comes to worse…yay!