One Heck of a Day!

Well, have you ever seen days so long, that the morning seems to be ages away when you finally hit the sack?

The 1st things was: My father and i took off to the Iraqi Airways office that i got my ticket from. The ticket for the 13 Aug. flight that i couldn't make it, remember? It turned out that their phones were down, therefore they couldn't do any ticket purchase or amendments! (smallie reminder: The year is 2006!!!). They asked me to go to another Iraqi Airways office, and guess what?! The car wouldn't run!!

I had to leave my dad who was trying to fix the car, under a "good" mid-August sun, with a "good" 50 C / 122 F heat, and go and return to and from that other Iraqi Airways office by taxi.

After some time, and with a valuable help from a cold drinks vendor, and after about an hour of sunbath, we managed to make the car run again, and then, another phase of this long day began.

See, i am to take a TOEFL test due on Sat. 19 Aug. and that takes place in Babylon Hotel downtown Baghdad, and because of the latest siege experience, i decided to go from Thu., stay for 2 nights at the hotel in preparation for the test, and in order not to find roads closed or anything when you want to come to the early start on Sat. at 8 am!

So, i arrived at the hotel, chilled out, went out to grab a bite for lunch, and to take a walk before sunset. At that time, wedding parades began to land at the hotel gate like rain. I think that there were about 20-30 couples checking in. I went downstairs to have dinner; and i went back to my room.

Anyways, here i am, at 3 in the morning, munching Lays, drinking Pepsi, and watching a Shelley Long movie called "Hello Again".

So, you see there, life can be beautiful after all; regardless of the fact of being a neighbor to someone who made a big noise in the hotel floor from his room, too big a noise that closing your door, and turning the TV volume higher gave no result!