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Re: I'm bored. Ask me anything.
The company pays to fly us back once a year. When we were in Europe we'd go back more often because it's so much closer but the company wasn't paying for it. I'll go twice this year. Once just me this summer (OH and DC if anyone feels like a gtg) and once with H over Christmas and New Years.
With Skype and Facetime it's not too difficult to be so far away. I talk to most of my close family members multiple times a week and I text with my dad almost every day. The hardest part is not being there as our nieces and nephews are growing up. They go from being an infant to a toddler to speaking full sentences between visits and sometimes I feel like I'm really missing out.
I just wanted to add that I think it's pretty odd about your H's work being controversial. I'd be totally happy if my H had that job and we got to travel like that! He's not pushing stuff onto people; it just seems like an odd thing to be a conversation stopper. I know you don't care much, I just wanted to show some solidarity or whatever to counteract all the bad reactions you get. Or maybe I'm just used to my friends who work at law firms and defend these companies. Lol.
Also, my H works for an oil company now, so I don't have too much room to point fingers.
The Insider is one of my very favorite movies. It's obviously what comes to mind reading this thread.
When are you coming here so we can drink wine together?
Where did you and your H meet?
A quick google search tells me we missed the deadline by a day. It looks like maybe it'll have to be for season 23?
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Damn! Next time, seriously!
-Here as in the US or San Francisco? I'll be on the east coast this summer. I am dying to get to Napa, so ASAP.
-Where all normal human beings meet: a bar. It was way back when I was in college and studying abroad in Prague. It was the first night of the NCAA tournament and he payed to keep the bar open past 4 so I could watch Xavier play. Anyone who extends a bar's hours is A-OK in my book.
Seriously. I think we could make it in.
Me too!
Is your H Czech?
OMG, I think you'd rock the socks off of the Race! If you make it, have them put "ladies who lunch" as your profession.
And tell Phil I love him.He's an American but he's six years older than I am, so when I was finishing up college he was doing a two year international stint with his old company.
Not a question, but I didn't realize you also studied abroad in Prague! I just figured the only time you were there was when you had to live there for your H's job. I miss Prague.
Oh wait, I do have a question - are you not going to be around for the Giants-Bengals game in Cincinnati on November 11th?
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DI'm not Publius, but the answer is the employees of most embassies are a mix of diplomats, non diplomatic expatriates, military (All of these being US citizens and occasionally their spouses who get hired for random stuff) and host country nationals. It would be prohibitively expensive to staff all of the administrative and logistical/maintenance posts with Americans and honestly when it comes to things like ordering food from local suppliers a local who can remain the the post for 10 years will be more effective than someone from the US on a 2 year rotation.
In some cases--especially in hard to fill posts--you will get third country nationals. For example I know a few Africans who work for USAID in Iraq after beig employed by the agency in their home country.
Only American consular officers do visa interviews. I'm not surprised it was denied. They probably didn't believe she would go back. I have friends all over the world that I cannot see frequently because they can't get US tourist visas. They are wealthy, educated, law abiding. But because they are from poor countries we don't believe them when they say they will return home so we take their money and deny hem again and again. I had a US Senator call the US Embassy in Dakar when inwas trying to get a friend to the US for my wedding. It didn't do a lick of good.
How'd you get so awesome?