I had a simple goal, to get my citizenship before the baby. easier for him, all he needs to do is be born. for me, we have lots of forms and wait. as time continues, I noticed that I would probably lose the race, but not by much.
it's common knowledge per psychobabble books that a boy learns one day that he can bit his father, though i am sure i can get to that point some day, my baby will get to that without even trying (unless you consider labor as a baby effort as well).
recently i had my finger printed once more with homeland security as part of the naturalization process and yesterday i received a letter scheduling my knowledge of America and final interview meeting, the last step before the official ceremony. even before i opened the letter, i knew it would fall on an important date, it must be so, it can't be on just any day. and no surprise, it is on our original due date.
so, we debate canceling, we don't want to mass with jack bower and the rest of homeland security, they kind of say that if you reschedule, it will take a long time, and so on, they recommend not to cancel. so perhaps we will take our chances and hope the baby comes on the current due date (2 days later)
so baby, if you are competitive like me, come earlier (I am CCing this to the stork), but if not, wait 4 days... know that people are flying in to meet you, be kind.
last night we went to see the musical Hair. I watched the movie several times, i have the record and know most songs, so for me, seeing the play is a lot of fun, a be dammed everyone within 3 seats of me, cause i like to sing along.
the show was by the Broadway people, their road crew, so nicely done, very good voices and very good coordination between the many performers. the play does not follow the movie, but has the same character. some songs from the movie don't actually make sense, i never noticed it till i saw the play. like the Manchester England England song, is in the movie but i never got it. in the play it does make sense.
the last act before the intermission ended with complete nudity of the entire cast leaving the audience, still in clothes, but shocked.
i am singing along, kind of quiet, humming, not my usual musical self but having a great time and so did Alla though this was the first exposure to this story.
at the end of the play, the cast starts to invite people on stage, we had good seats, and it took me a few seconds to notice the invite. i don't know why it took me too long to jump up and run, I must be getting older, but not old enough just yet. i went on stage with the crew as they were singing let the sun shine in. i managed to tell Claude that this was and awesome play, then danced a bit with lots of other viewers, and from no where comes Berger, the star and now every is raising their hands , and we hold hands in a very platonic way. lucky i have my phone, i try to get a photo of us both, but its hard to do so and sing along and watch every one with the button being on the other side of the phone, i try to click the button many times and afterwards i see only 2 photos, but one of them is perfect. one of the minor casts hands me flowers, and i get a less then OK shot of lug (probably not his real stage name) and one more minor member of the cast. I was trying to see Alla from the stage but lights are blinding. i was on such a high.
not sure why i can run on stage and dance but cannot do a simple toast at home without being totally nervous.
we finally joined the current millennium, caved in and purchased a TV. we purchased on a few months ago, then cancelled right, one of us is an impulsive buyer, the other an impulsive worrier, this difference is causing delays. and last week we finally did it after a long disagreement over 4 inches of TV width. how ever amazon doesn't like our agreement and lost our TV!! they told us they started some internal investigation- likely someone stole it or something, now it was re-shipped , still waiting. i am hopeful the by some freak occurrence they will send us both!
the last few weeks were exceptionally difficult, my new role is stressful, but that by itself would be fine. a busy marketing class and a very dysfunctional group.
the 1st project i passed the group to review, a 20 page project, one guy replies, its good. how can a 20 pages be good on the 1st iteration?
in the class the teacher divided us into random numbered groups. before that we each introduced ourselves. i was seating on one side of a very large room, one guy on the other side, i couldn't hear him, spoke so softly, i didn't want him since we have to present. of course we ended in the same group.
a week after more people who didn't bother come to the 1st class arrive and they join existing teams. one guy arrives an hour later, and says he takes another course that day and would always be late. i don't want people who miss half the class in my group, guess where he ends up?
then on week3, we get another, this time it is someone i had a project with from a previous class. at that time this person wouldn't meet us to practice and we didn't know their performance level till the day of the presentation itself. so our group has people , the largest group, the others are 4 or 3, not sure why we have extra and why i got stuck with literally parasites. this type of program will allow all of them to graduate. this group is dysfunctional from day one, no meeting of group assigned scheduled, no review. we decide to split the work but ti doesn't really work. one guy takes the big project and avoids the small one, which makes sense, but when he gives his work to us, the other 2 say its worth nothing and discard his work completely , so now with little time to spare we have to do both the last presentation and the big end project. since the other 2 started to redo the big project- i go solo on the smaller one, work the previous weekend and complete it. mean while on the other one, by tomorrow we will finish this section and move on, the next day its the same, time passes and nothing really happens. my stress level rise within each day and now instead of studying after doing a lot more then my share with an annoying none reviewing group. i have to work more, since this is a group grade. we agree on a 4 day crash study to finish. on Thursday, only one shows up.
we agree to meet Friday- and 2 show up so we actual make progress. we agree to meet Saturday at 4 to work through the night. during the day while i work on some parts, one of them send an email that they will come at 6, the other one sees that and says me to.
at 6:30 one comes for an hour.. the other car is stuck, and the last doesnt even bother to show up. the last person we don't even consider after doing such poor work.
i am being stood up again on Sunday morning. fun! mean while i do most of the work, rework. i don't know how these people think. i know i am not a business genius , but some common sense. we have to come with a business plan that's logical for a real company. so the guy offer to make one objective which we are behind our competitors by a factor of 10!- all the while when we try to cut cost. it cant work- you cant plan for contradicting objectives, unless you have a brilliant plan. we don't.
in the end , i write half the big paper, i get no reviews, i know i make mistakes, but get no feedback and i fight them on making sure the other objectives are in line with each other. on Monday i was again worried on the presentation of the smaller project. i do it with just one of the other normaler guy. we don't even bother with the rest- since 2 of them don't even listen in class when they bother to come and the last one that completely choked during a previous presentation, stood with his back to the audience and just read of the slides. the sad thing he works for the government ! our future is doomed. the presentation turns out really well and then i see the printed paper. the choked guy was in charge of that and of course its not the right version. i am so tiered and stressed out today that seeing this totally crushes me. we now rush to correct it, merge versions to hand it something worth while. i hope we did. now i have to wait 2 more days to see the results. after we delay the teacher on the last day to get it reprinted. one person (the one who didn't bother to come on Saturday without notice) asks the teacher what to do in case one person doesn't help the group, i was rolling my eyes but didn't ask what i wanted to ask, what do you do when 3 members do nothing!
we have 2 more things in the course- a final presentation on the project we handed in and a test. at this point, none of them volunteered to do it. no surprises. i think i will do it, and present it just for me. perhaps ask the teacher if he will allow it.
on Monday evening after class i was so exhausted , with no nerves.
the hair show on Tuesday came in perfect timing, i needed to relax.
cheers and let the sun shine in
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