Not in Tunisia
It is Sunday and I am not in Tunis. I canceled my ticket at the last minute and wrote lengthy apologies to my colleagues. I will spend much of the week Skyping with Syrian activists in Tunis while being filmed by documentary filmmakers, but I will not be there myself
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I don't understand why everyone is so afraid of Tunis. I was looking forward to seeing it. My boss wants us to throw a conference in Tunis in the Spring, so I suppose I will see it then. Life is (hopefully) very long and I have many opportunities to travel, but right now I am suffering from crippling Fear of Missing Out.
In most cases, I am not so slow to heal. I am just very slow to get over colds because of that time I destroyed my lungs with the Death Cough. For years afterwards, every cold I got would turn into Death Cough and I would be sick for months on end. I have been slow to get rid of this air bubble. On average, it takes 6-8 weeks after surgery for the air bubble to be fully absorbed, which is why I felt comfortable scheduling travel for Week 9. Unfortunately, I am guessing that it will be another week before it is completely gone.
My pupil is completely unreactive, long after I stopped using the atropine drops. I have a couple more months of healing before it is declared permanent, but tonic pupil is caused by damage to the optic nerve during surgery. It's either nicked or it's not--and if it is, it will not heal. Oh well. There goes my modeling career.
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It makes you a more stereotypical cyberpunk heroine, though.
Having another shot to go see it in the spring is awesome; if you're like me, you'll get over Fear of Missing Out as soon as you get to go somewhere. Hopefully your bubble absconds with itself properly now and that can be soon.
Lots of sympathy.
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If my air bubble is gone two weeks from now, I will go to Rio. I have fought a mighty battle against the Brazilian consulate to get a visa at a time when some combination of technical difficulties and inclement politics meant that the Brazilian consulate was not issuing tourist visas to Americans on the West Coast. I would like to make use of it. I am disappointed to miss Tunis, but I am mostly afflicted with first world problems.
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