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Feb. 29th, 2004 08:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jdmkleinThis is the weather for the gods. It is magnormousfully georgeous today. 8:00 at night and we still have the house open. Got to love this weather.
Doing a good deed can cause migraine.
A long time ago, 6 months or so, the cleaning woman lost her sponsor. i told her i would sponsor her if she needed. At first she said that would be fine, but then she got more hours working for someone else and said she didn't think i should pay to be her sponsor if someone else was having her work full time for them. i agreed but told her if things didn't work out i would still be happy to do it.
Today at 4 pm she left to go back to Sri Lanki for her sister's giving birth. This morning at 8:00 she didn't have her sponsorship. Seems the people who were going to sponsor her have been playing a little game. In the first place, they were going to charge her 300 dinars, the government paperwork and all costs 220 dinars, they were going to keep the other 80 dinars. She was agreeable to this, but they kept messing with her about what day they would do it. Yesterday they said for sure in two or three weeks.
Last night she called me and asked me to help. Of course i said yes, i would. i had already promised her i would. So we went off this morning to the passport office. i had a meeting at 9:30 but was assured it would be a 30minute deal. Of course it wasn't. Fortunately the meeting was postponed, but the one for 10:30 was still on.
Nothing in this country,bureaucracy-wise is easy. i forgot to get the NSAIDS for the pain, and we had to stand for 2 hrs while the dinkocrats talked to friends on their cell phones or played man better than woman games with me. Making us wait because they could. All-in-all, the fact that we were completely done in 2hours amazes me. Nonetheless i had a migraine all day long.
As i drove home, stupid thing to do, it worsened, i remembered to stop and buy the NSAIDS but forgot the migraine medicine. Master stopped on the way out to the desert, and let me rest on the ride. By the time we got home, there was only a little niggle. Now it is gone completely. Good thing those pills work, cuz i'd hate to pay 30$/pill for it not to work.
She is gone. And just about now should be getting home. She deserves good things. And we shall be getting a pineapple.
Doing a good deed can cause migraine.
A long time ago, 6 months or so, the cleaning woman lost her sponsor. i told her i would sponsor her if she needed. At first she said that would be fine, but then she got more hours working for someone else and said she didn't think i should pay to be her sponsor if someone else was having her work full time for them. i agreed but told her if things didn't work out i would still be happy to do it.
Today at 4 pm she left to go back to Sri Lanki for her sister's giving birth. This morning at 8:00 she didn't have her sponsorship. Seems the people who were going to sponsor her have been playing a little game. In the first place, they were going to charge her 300 dinars, the government paperwork and all costs 220 dinars, they were going to keep the other 80 dinars. She was agreeable to this, but they kept messing with her about what day they would do it. Yesterday they said for sure in two or three weeks.
Last night she called me and asked me to help. Of course i said yes, i would. i had already promised her i would. So we went off this morning to the passport office. i had a meeting at 9:30 but was assured it would be a 30minute deal. Of course it wasn't. Fortunately the meeting was postponed, but the one for 10:30 was still on.
Nothing in this country,bureaucracy-wise is easy. i forgot to get the NSAIDS for the pain, and we had to stand for 2 hrs while the dinkocrats talked to friends on their cell phones or played man better than woman games with me. Making us wait because they could. All-in-all, the fact that we were completely done in 2hours amazes me. Nonetheless i had a migraine all day long.
As i drove home, stupid thing to do, it worsened, i remembered to stop and buy the NSAIDS but forgot the migraine medicine. Master stopped on the way out to the desert, and let me rest on the ride. By the time we got home, there was only a little niggle. Now it is gone completely. Good thing those pills work, cuz i'd hate to pay 30$/pill for it not to work.
She is gone. And just about now should be getting home. She deserves good things. And we shall be getting a pineapple.
