November 29, 2011

Things are finally coming together…I think...


I returned from my week visiting family in St. Louis at 3am on Monday to spend two days in security training preparing to be bombed, robbed, assaulted, taken hostage, exposed to nerve gas, and attacked with WMDs. (Don't worry Mom, most of these are "low probability" events.) And naturally, after all that, we ended with evacuation protocols, available resources for PTSD, and the importance of wills and power of attorney documents.

Welcome to the Embassy - here’s your gas mask and nerve gas antidote…


Tomorrow the moving company will be coming by to do our pre-pack survey and I’ll be finishing up my online “Intro to Working in an Embassy” training.  Then it’ll be time to get down to business getting moving arrangements done…our stuff should be packed up on the 12th and we should be on our way to Tbilisi on the 18th. Lots of things to get done between now and then, and the list seems to keep growing.