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So make some today!

Here are some things that are funny:

TIME: Then and Now
I really wish we blogged more than once weekly, but it just seems like the days are half as long as they used to be when I was younger. Part of me wants to make a mathematical formula for how long days seem in relation to our age, and another equation for how long a month seems to take on the same axis.

As a kid, I remember the endless stretches between weekly allowances. The day I actually got my ten bucks must have been at least sixty hour long. I'd have the first half of Friday to sit in school and think of all the things I could do with that tenner. Then I'd get it, and spend the second half of eternity waiting for an adult to take me anywhere I could do any of the things I'd thought of. Weekends were always too short back then too. Part of it was because I wanted to fit everything in to each one, and was disappointed that I couldn't. The other part was always saying, "the weekend is just too short," because I was young and knew, even then, that it was easy, amiable conversation.

Now though, it all seems to blur together. The weeks swim by faster than I can imagine up things to fill them with. I think of ten dollars as merely two lunches now, and I feel like I got to buy more frivolous fluff when I was broke. The weekends are still too short, but at least now they fit in with the rest of the week proportionately. I'm positive that Megan and I do more now, but our thirst for activity has grown much faster than our free time, so it seems like we do less.

And why exactly is this funny? Because people think of time as something absolute and scientific. How is it that today was eaten so quickly for me, but lingers too long to someone else? I could give a great analogy about the length of a meter-stick to an outside observer at near light speed, but relativity is not easy to explain. My philosophical side (that I don't let out as much as I should) wonders if maybe we do move through the same day 'faster' at times. Perhaps our perception of a day going quickly is just our grasp of how hastily we moved through it. Half-sequiter: Did you know that time zones weren't established formally by congress until 1918? Check out this wikipedia link because it's interesting the things we take for granted.

SPACE: Location is Everything
Good news, Megan's VISA situation was resolved swiftly and in our favor. To those who weren't aware, when Megan's passport was stolen she got a new one issued, but didn't have time to get her VISA put in before traveling for work. The passport official, on her return, wouldn't let her get her documentation that she'd left in her bag and stamped her passport with a one week VISA which, unknown to her, voided her VISA to live and work here. The week expired and we didn't even know to be worried yet. Megan started to call around and found out that she was now officially an 'overstay' and could be deported if someone got huffy about it. We hired a lawyer, and had been waiting nervously for the results. But it all worked out in the end and we're all gtg over here.

Why is this funny? Because why is this even an issue? Somebody gave Megan a year long VISA. She had it. I saw it. Why couldn't some 6.50 an hour lackey look up her name and passport number in a machine and say, "right, here you go," and be done with it? And if you think the time ranges you get from the cable installation guy are bad, peep this: One of our options was to have Megan fly back to Chicago (because you can only apply for a VISA in a foreign country) and reapply. They said she'd either get her VISA that day or in six friggen months. Sign me up for that great plan. (deep-breaths.. relax) But it's over and we're excitedly planning a trip to Rome in the near future.

Well, none of this was really 'ha ha' funny, but my friends will tell you that I often fail to make people laugh. So... no big deal really.