Superficial Joy

Sooooo...  I have not been the best driver in my life, even if you remove fainting at the wheel (see this post for details on that). I've had my fair share of accidents and traffic tickets, but the entire first year I was here I didn't get any tickets! Let me back up. Speed is monitored by numerous merciless radar cameras like this one: photo from https://www.drivearabia.com/news/2013/01/31/abu-dhabi-gets-15-new-radars-uae/ As an aside, the speed limits used to be 20 kph over the posted limit, and it is still like that in Dubai. Yes, you read that correctly. So when the sign said 60 kph, you could actually go 80 and the radar was set to 81. On the way to Dubai (an hour-and-a-half up the road) the speed limit is 140 kph. And so the signs used to say 120 but you were just supposed to know  that you could drive 140. On Sunday, August 12 of 2018 the speed "buffer" was eliminated.  So now when you drive to Dubai, which is in a different Emirate and thus subject t

So this happened on the way to work Wednesday morning. Everyone is okay. Part 1 I awoke really tired, but I did go out to dinner last night and late some yummy bread, which often wears me out the next day.  Before I left for school my stomach didn't feel good but it passed by the time I was ready to go, so off I went. about 2 stoplights away from my apartment building when I started feeling nauseous again. This time it was accompanied with sort of an overwhelming feeling of ick. I got kinda hot but the big thing is that my vision started to get funky. I realized I should go home and started praying that I'd make it. I did a U-turn and my vision field of vision started to get smaller and smaller. I remember praying again that I make it back to my building... The next thing I know I'm calm and feel like I'm sleeping in my bed. Then I remember I am supposed to be driving to work so something must be wrong. I smelled gun powder. When I came to and looked up,

Happy New Year!! I have sent out Christmas cards every year for about 15 years, but this year it didn't happen. I hate doing this, but at least it gets a card out until next year!  There were not a lot of posts once I changed schools, so here  is a little glimpse of what I've been doing this year. Thank you all for being a wonderful support system to me on this grand adventure!  I could never have done it without you!