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November 22, 2006
Sick
[Update: the content of this entry has been edited for, among other things, brevity]
I’m sick, but getting better. I spent yesterday asleep in bed, which is not easy when your room is located in an office.
My appetite has been weird. I’m eating a Quaker Brand Chewy Granola Bar with Chocolate chunks. On the box it says “Enjoy the good things in life.” Someone, somewhere, suffers from a grave misunderstanding. The good things in life cannot include Quaker chewy granola bars. It should read “Enjoy the things in life that remind you of that truck stop where you got sick in the middle of the summer when you were eight.”
I spent most of the day at the Indian Embassy. I am supposed to travel to India for ten days and I am supposed to get a 1-year business visa in order to do this. [...edited section...]
Hope was encouraging. “I’ll write to you when you end up getting transferred from the Indian state prison system to a Thai jail because of overcrowding.”
The embassy provided practice. I got there and hour late and took a number: 123. I looked at the digital “Now Serving” indicator and it read 23, an hour later it read 44. Several applicants were in the back corner, carving their names into the wall. Names or slashed lines. I couldn’t tell. A knife fight broke out near the cafeteria while several applicant began rattling tin cups against their chairs. One of the visa officers came over to me. Would I like to start an “Applicants” football team? I told him that I was not an ex-star quarterback now alcoholic who crashes his wife’s car and ends up in a tough jail in Texas. He looked downcast. I pointed farther down the aisle. Someone in row fifteen was wearing shoulder pads and a helmet. The visa officer walked on down the aisle.
Anyway, my nose is still stuffed and I am having trouble keeping my fever down. The office is celebrating with a call at 9:30 this evening. It should be a pretty long call. That’s the sort of thing you do as a tourist.
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| By jb | 06:58 AM
Comments
Are you sure you should be writing about this on your blog?
Posted by: heidi at November 22, 2006 10:10 AM
Good point! I may edit it a bit this morning.
Posted by: jb at November 22, 2006 07:31 PM
cool, you blogging from an Indian prison will be even more interesting than you blogging from Singapore! I hope you are reading up on your post-colonialist literature so you can really get the style right.
Posted by: linnea at November 24, 2006 03:42 PM
I don't think you should ever edit a post for brevity...
Posted by: funke at November 24, 2006 11:23 PM
As the Simpsons famously said, "Brevity...wit."
Posted by: will at December 18, 2006 01:10 PM