One Square at a Time
Swing your partner, Do-Si-Do.
Just as an FYI, I am going to be in less-frequent blogging mode again. I just moved to an apartment in Cairo, thereby losing my hard-fought internet connection. Square one. Now I must begin the process all over again. I have learned some things along the way, though, and these will help me considerably. Not to mention that I am physically and mentally incapable of getting upset about not having an internet connection since Mamoon programmed my brain to giggle every time I hear the word “internet.”
However, I have access to a connection at the BCA, so perhaps I will still be able to post with relative frequency. I also have a couple of new podcasts in the trunk. They just need to be finished up and then I will send them your way.
And again, with any luck, inshallah, I will soon have my apartment connected to the internet.
I just giggled out loud. Seriously.
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“internet”: verb phrase. The Bavarian pet shop owner said in his thick accent, “I tries to get der little fishies internet.”
“internet”: corporate jargon. A cadre of female interns subordinate to the lead or senior female intern. “Here comes Julie and the internettes to do the filing,” or, “You left the party just in time; Karen and the internettes wouldn’t stop singing the Eagles’ “Best of My Love.”
“internet”: colloquialism. Yorkshire. An attempt at seduction. “Yon Jenny Hargreaves is a right mazer, no doubt– yon bampot Charlie Herriot’s lad’s been trying ta get internet, but she bain’t having eny.”
We’ll hear from you again soon, if God wills. (I half-heard on NPR the other day that inshallah is still meant piously by old grandmas and country folk in Iraq(?), but around the cities it’s becoming more and more ironic, like the Mexican “manana”, meaning, “it ain’t gonna happen in this lifetime”.)
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Oh man, inshallah it will be sooner than later, but I am not counting my anxiety chickens yet.
Lot’s of folks still mean it when they say inshallah but people will readily admit that there is a hefty amount of irony involved these days. Funny, since irony is pretty much lost on everyone here.
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Inshallah