Now that I have to work.......at what? What's the point of staying here? If I can earn European wages that's one and a half the money I'd make here. The UK Pound even better. What we need is a social wage here, and it's not happening......fast enough. Once again it's women who frustrate me with their inability to organize and focus.....yeah, I'm being hard, but for a reason. But given the factors outside my control, what is within my power? And I think all the time about where I'm going next; maybe spend another month in Egypt, at least, just in one place, too; like the Dahab Hotel in Cairo, bring a space heater and scissors this time. I should have loaded up on chocolate there. I have to go to JFK airport and get my cat statue and perfume the Israeli security guards felt obligated to put in a separate box.
Still thinking about the tsunami; I'm glad Egypt wasn't hurt; so the people I met there are OK. Fortunately Dahab is on the Red Sea where I don't think there'll be a tsunami (not like I'm the expert). I actually took Oceanography in college and almost flunked, but I did learn about tsunamis there. One of my biggest fears as a kid was being swallowed up by a giant wave of water. We lived on Lake Michigan and I have had dreams about flooding and so on. I knew one of the warning signs of a tsunami coming is receding water; if the water gets suddenly pulled way out, that means get out. Even in the Hamptons when I'm in the water I have fears of that happening.