I live
oh god, LIVEJOURNAL!
LJ is blocked at work - along with facebook - and I really can't afford to go to cafes and go online, so this is a rare appearance at Books@Cafe, an hour early for a business-ish meeting.
please please email / leave comments / whatever at my gmail: emgrace at gmail dot com
because I'd love to hear from you but I won't be back on LJ for possibly weeks.
God, so much to update. But for now .. I just got back from Pulp Magazine offices and they WANT TO PUBLISH - of all things my boss sent them as a writing sample, since he's friends with the editor and god knows the call center doesn't pay me living wage and we figured why not - of all the things we sent them, they want to publish the article I wrote for AGAPE. One can imagine how cheesy and sentimental and moreover all about nonviolence and LOVE and so on that is .. and .. they want to publish it in one of the most popular english-language jordanian glossy magazines, that's targeted to my age group, and and and AND
the issue is December's, so paycheck soon if this goes through- and the theme is "Make Love Not War" (gotta love this magazine)
AAAAAAAND
they also want me to do the feature article for that issue! about jordan as a unique place in terms of lack of violent conflict, and why that is, and so on and so forth - a lot of exactly what my project last year and my honors thesis were about!
as the cover story of Pulp!
really people. every day has not been this newsworthy.
I want very much to go post on everyone's page individually and start trying to catch up and so on .. but for now, since i forgot my adapter and cna't gank Jad's until an hour or two from now .. and because as soon as I'm done talking to him i want to go HOOOOME because I think i have my second bladder infection in as many months :(( and today is sweaty and I feel gross and ugly and .. just one of *those* days ... gah. whatever.
uhm. I'm still with Abe, despite having had my first experience with domestic violence. :(
that one is as bad as it sounds. i'm sorry. to myself mostly, i guess. i don't know how to put it better or explain. i'm safe. i'm okay. i could probably use a good cry. but i'm okay. the [ps] to the whole episode is this: remember how Abe has an american mom and american citizenship and is christian, as much as both of us aren't really religious, and so on? lies. all lies. his mom did indeed leave them when he was 2, but she's Nablusi. I've got myself a palestinan-jordanian with enough identity issues for all of them together. he is in culture, tradition, and religious upbringing VERY much a sunni. and he was in ohio for 11 years, but illegally. no passport. green card interview next month at the embassy. i will most likely be there as his character witness and so on. HA. sigh. i fell for him hard and long before i had any clue what i might be getting myself into. and so it goes.
until that episode i was fasting ramadan hardcore. took a few days to stop shaking. not now 'cause i'm bleeding, oh god, the uncleanliness. sigh.
the call center is fun even as data entry gets more and more grueling.
i rarely associate with other foreigners.
i have a studio apartment in walking distance from work, next to the police training academy, 16 years old and up waking me with debke music at 7:15am and toting machine guns .. not to the sidewalk store or anything, but still. i'm covered in mosquito bites because the egyptian building guard, who is otherwise wonderful, leaves buckets of standing water in my garden.
uhm. yeah. talked myself in circles, email me, masalaama
LJ is blocked at work - along with facebook - and I really can't afford to go to cafes and go online, so this is a rare appearance at Books@Cafe, an hour early for a business-ish meeting.
please please email / leave comments / whatever at my gmail: emgrace at gmail dot com
because I'd love to hear from you but I won't be back on LJ for possibly weeks.
God, so much to update. But for now .. I just got back from Pulp Magazine offices and they WANT TO PUBLISH - of all things my boss sent them as a writing sample, since he's friends with the editor and god knows the call center doesn't pay me living wage and we figured why not - of all the things we sent them, they want to publish the article I wrote for AGAPE. One can imagine how cheesy and sentimental and moreover all about nonviolence and LOVE and so on that is .. and .. they want to publish it in one of the most popular english-language jordanian glossy magazines, that's targeted to my age group, and and and AND
the issue is December's, so paycheck soon if this goes through- and the theme is "Make Love Not War" (gotta love this magazine)
AAAAAAAND
they also want me to do the feature article for that issue! about jordan as a unique place in terms of lack of violent conflict, and why that is, and so on and so forth - a lot of exactly what my project last year and my honors thesis were about!
as the cover story of Pulp!
really people. every day has not been this newsworthy.
I want very much to go post on everyone's page individually and start trying to catch up and so on .. but for now, since i forgot my adapter and cna't gank Jad's until an hour or two from now .. and because as soon as I'm done talking to him i want to go HOOOOME because I think i have my second bladder infection in as many months :(( and today is sweaty and I feel gross and ugly and .. just one of *those* days ... gah. whatever.
uhm. I'm still with Abe, despite having had my first experience with domestic violence. :(
that one is as bad as it sounds. i'm sorry. to myself mostly, i guess. i don't know how to put it better or explain. i'm safe. i'm okay. i could probably use a good cry. but i'm okay. the [ps] to the whole episode is this: remember how Abe has an american mom and american citizenship and is christian, as much as both of us aren't really religious, and so on? lies. all lies. his mom did indeed leave them when he was 2, but she's Nablusi. I've got myself a palestinan-jordanian with enough identity issues for all of them together. he is in culture, tradition, and religious upbringing VERY much a sunni. and he was in ohio for 11 years, but illegally. no passport. green card interview next month at the embassy. i will most likely be there as his character witness and so on. HA. sigh. i fell for him hard and long before i had any clue what i might be getting myself into. and so it goes.
until that episode i was fasting ramadan hardcore. took a few days to stop shaking. not now 'cause i'm bleeding, oh god, the uncleanliness. sigh.
the call center is fun even as data entry gets more and more grueling.
i rarely associate with other foreigners.
i have a studio apartment in walking distance from work, next to the police training academy, 16 years old and up waking me with debke music at 7:15am and toting machine guns .. not to the sidewalk store or anything, but still. i'm covered in mosquito bites because the egyptian building guard, who is otherwise wonderful, leaves buckets of standing water in my garden.
uhm. yeah. talked myself in circles, email me, masalaama