Reportage and Matrimony

I finally received my UAE residence visa. It’s got a bunch of Arabic, and then in English…

Profession: REPORT MAKER
Accompanied by
Wife: NONE

I immediately sent out an email asking somebody if she’d consider being the wife of a maker of reports. (Profession: The Report Maker’s Wife. Sounds like a bad war-time movie.)

The ever rude Mumbaikar suggested using liquid paper to delete the first ‘n’ from ‘none’, so it reads better:

Profession: REPORT MAKER
Accompanied by
Wife: ONE

So I’m working on it. The acquisition of the wife liquid paper. Perhaps the sheikhs will let me take four? (Or not.) This also means it’s time to go. I don’t really know what to feel about it except to make plans to turn 23 in my first days in a place I’ve never been to. Sounds alright to me.

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