Until further notice

Or at least until I get some sleep....I just can't seem to get the chicken scratch I penned while we were in Turkey these past two weeks from paper to keyboard.

However, at the risk of wrecking the anticipation I'll jump ahead a bit for now and report that we *did* in fact receive Hamid's visa to the States during our visit with the Embassy in Ankara. It took all of five minutes in the end and I had to check the bottoms of my new stilettos after we had left the interview and were seated, stunned and happy, in the back of a yellow Turkish 'taksi' - I wasn't at all convinced I'd actually walked out of there; it was really something more like ethereal floating. Sure enough, that famous Loubitin red was still patently shiny and completely intact.