I feel so silly-willy...

I hope it is not too late to recant my harsh criticism of yesterday's interview. I got a mail from the interviewer asking me to answer some of the questions again. Apparently she didn't understand what the heck I was talking about with my answers yesterday. I should really get to studying Japanese again. I really feel that I am loosing loosing loosing it day by day. It is a tough choice though... study Japanese or study career related computer topics. Of course as I told the interviewer yesterday, although I hope to be back in the US within the next ten years, it's pretty obvious that there is a 89% chance that I will be working in a Japan related field. Studying Japanese is also a career builder.

I put this link up the other day to a Fresh Air inteview with a reporter in Palestine. He tells the story of how while he was traveling with the Israeli army, they took over a Palestinian family home to use as a base. Later I found this audio transcript from a young Palestinian woman whose house was taken over by the Israeli army. They are both interesting, but taken together even more so.

Ms. DINA HUZARY: The Israeli soldiers came and took our buildings and stayed there as a military base and forced our neighbors to come down and live in our house for three days. It was horrible. They have the guns all the time and it's not even guns, it's machine guns, big guns and they have them pointed into your face so we can't move. Even when we are in one room, we can't talk 'cause they don't understand Arabic mostly, so they don't want us talking. And you never know what's going to happen. It's very hard, especially when one of them--like a soldier my age would go up to my dad or to my uncle and scream at him and force him to do things and he's just so young--he's the one in power. So we were very scared 'cause they're taking men from the age of 14 till 50. Like we're three girls and one brother and my brother is the youngest. He's 15, so whenever they come into our house, we tried to act calmly and let them do whatever they want. They can check the house. They can look and find whatever they want. They could take everything, but you have to act patiently so they won't hurt you.

I am happy to know, as I'm sure anyone else would be, that my site is gaining in popularity. Last time I checked the logs, I was averaging 15 visits a day. I think half of those are search engine robots and what not, and I visit about 3 times a day. That still leaves 5 visits from OTHER PEOPLE!!!!

I know one lady who seems to find my boring stories interesting. So much so that she actually had a dream about my web-site. (it turned out later that she was just mixing it up with some other site she saw that day, but the fact remains, she can't get the bastishnet out of her mind).