zonewombat: (jack sparrow)
ZoneWombat ([personal profile] zonewombat) wrote2006-08-15 10:21 pm
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Tempus fugit

Today was Assumption Day (celebrated by making wild assumptions?), a national holiday, so we had a four-day weekend.  We celebrated by having the nanny take Mallory to his friend D's house for the whole day yesterday.  It was great.  But man did these four days go fast!

Less than a year to go here, and it feels like we are short-timers.  We've both got the "two years, time to move" thing going on, and simultaneous with that is the countdown:  This is our last Assumption Day here.  This is our last summer here, and no concerts in the park this year.  The short-timer feeling is compounded by 4/5 of the embassy turning over this year.  I don't recognize anyone, and people keep saying things to me like, "You've been here *two years*?!?  Wwooowww." 

I feel like a high school senior.

OTOH, I finally know my way around the northern suburbs at least, and people don't automatically switch to English when I try to talk with them.

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