permanent visa

today i finally emerged from a 3-day funk. i am bummed about school-- many times this week i have had the thought to give up, have a baby and move to the village. there, life would be very routine-- wake up, have chai, sweep the house, make food, take a nap, make food, eat snacks on the rooftop and gossip, maybe watch some nepali tv or a hindu television epic, eat dinner, go to bed.

tomorrow the semester resumes. except i will be missing class bc guddu (&I???) have an appointment with INS. we're very confused about what we need to bring, and even if i need to be there. better be safe than to have to reschedule! guddu right now is freaking out because he has misplaced our original visa application. this is very typical-- at the 11th hour, try to find sense in a chaos of paperwork and files.

guddu also freaked out last week bc he had a project knowledge test at work. questions were like "what is the fuel capacity on the saturn vue?" "what is included in the sports package?" etc. he lost sleep over this. luckily i am the one in school, not him. otherwise he'd probably have a breakdown.

ok, i am being beckoned to locate the missing INS file.