Yeah, so this afternoon was spent sitting in a room full of new international students (not by choice, they put an ACADEMIC HOLD on us so we would HAVE to go..how stupid is that?) watching such informational videos as "Cold Water" (A lovely quote from which is, 'I felt alone, scared and very very isolated....sniff....') and a mindless Campus Safety video while a middle aged balding desk jockey cracked insulting jokes about Koreans, Indians, Pakistanis, Koreans, Indians, McDonalds and oh did I mention Koreans?
His favourite Korean anecdote apparently is to say that every Korean man he's ever known likes dogs as their favourite animal.
Retch.
I had to put up with this for 3 hours !!!! And then I find out that I HAVE to purchase a $325 a quarter health insurance policy from OSU simply because I am an international student regardless of whether I have insurance from another provider or not. That's just plain ridiculous, and to my mind...ILLEGAL!
$1300 a year for health insurance? I think not! Oh and there are penalties too if you don't buy the policy..oh such as not being registered for classes! Oh yes, perfectly reasonable.....quite perfectly reasonable... My kitchen and bathroom are awash in white powedery plaster...it's hotter than I can stand outside and today is supposed to be a nice happy day.
It's my 3 year anniversary! Yeah, I came out 3 years ago :-) and just a year later on the same day I landed in Kobenhavn, Danmark....sigh...what a glorious, shining, golden time that was....and those memories have to be tainted with this!
Oh and let's not forget who called the other day. You guessed it, the boi called me out of the blue from upstate to tell me why he'd disappeared for most of the summer. Boy is it a whopper of a tale with all the elements of classic drama; stalking, heated arguments, a vicious beatdown, a late night cross-country road trip with nothing but the clothes you wearing, near nervous breakdowns...I mean his story has it all! The problem is it's so easy to believe because I know he's unbalanced, slighly nutty and has a mean-as-fuck ex bf... part of me's suspicious as well...He didn't call for nearly 2 months or email or anything like that to let me know where he was, whether he was alive or out of jail or on the lam in Saskatchewan (do they have internet cafes in Saskatchewan? They sure as hell have telephones!) and so now that I know he's alive and back with his parents are things supposed to go back to lovey-dovey normal? I was sure I would never hear from him again..I was used to that fact and had begun to move on..and now this..just what am I supposed to do?
It's a matter of trust really, and I just don't know if I can trust him, and I hate myself for feeling that way, but surely I have reason....
Happy 3 years.
posted by WM @ 17:36
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