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Still holding on in Buffalo (and it seems, holding on to a buffalo as well :} ... and I'm learning plenty... fears and mistakes can be very challenging to overcome... and immigration rules can be really dumb... and friends are the best thing in this world... I am surviving cuz friends are giving me almost unbelievable patience... my correspondence is haphazard, at best... rude even, at worst... just so little time and so much stress and strain and fatigue... and yet, like any good healthy workout that takes the body and mind to it's limits but carefully does not cross into over-kill, I'm growing and re-building myself... it's a private, personal, selfish process that consumes a lot of time and add to that the cost of survival itself (working time) and I barely have basic hygiene time these days... last time I sat down for a meal was... ummmm... months?... well, I've got a room to sleep in and I'm working so much, not having a kitchen is only a passing grumble most of the time... the bathroom, well... that is miss... I am climbing out of the hole I dug for myself... it just takes time and some sacrifice of "comforts"... I still have it a whole lot better than more than half the world's population, probably...
anyway, I've been working a challenging physical labour job - sorting paper on a conveyor belt (the paper passes two to three feet high, sometimes wet which makes it much heavier and the job is flip the pile continuously as it passes so anything that isn't paper can be pulled out and sorted... it's called recycling... some people actually get it right... but sometimes that means stinky bags of garbage (hey people in Buffalo - and anywhere there is recycling going on - the recycling bins are marked clearly so pppllleeeeasse use them right, huh? :) ... the pay is not great, but I've been able to work 60+ hours a week all summer so I gave up the second job (cleaning offices, talk about opposite extremes in the same industry) and still saved up some money... needed the money to pay phone and other bills (the phone company just must love us - the cost of keeping in touch through international long distance is so high... still, family (and true love - like they say in The Princess Bride - is worth it, ya know? ;) ... even though she's more my daughter than anything, we can still dream... still, it's like being separated from my five kids... so alas, it's still
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