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bktheirregular) wrote2007-10-03 10:56 am
bktheirregular) wrote2007-10-03 10:56 am
Decision time
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Return to New York in less than three weeks. And from all I'm hearing, my best bet to be able to go back and keep working is to claim Greek citizenship. Which means a month and a half of army training/service, somewhere along the line. (I can only hope that the paperwork for that follows the same path as my work-permit paperwork, in which case I'd probably go through boot camp carrying a second-generation plasma rifle and marching using a walker. But Murphy's law undoubtedly applies here as well: inconvenient paperwork will probably pass through the system much faster than useful paperwork.)
In any case, even if the Greek government decides I'm a Greek citizen with all the duties and responsibilities thereof, I still plan to go to the local polling place in New York on Election Day and cast my ballot for whoever. It's sort of a symbolic thing: I was born an American, and no matter what people may say at home or abroad, I intend to remain an American, and nobody but nobody is going to take that away from me.
Even if I had to go abroad to start my career.
And some day, I am coming home.
Return to New York in less than three weeks. And from all I'm hearing, my best bet to be able to go back and keep working is to claim Greek citizenship. Which means a month and a half of army training/service, somewhere along the line. (I can only hope that the paperwork for that follows the same path as my work-permit paperwork, in which case I'd probably go through boot camp carrying a second-generation plasma rifle and marching using a walker. But Murphy's law undoubtedly applies here as well: inconvenient paperwork will probably pass through the system much faster than useful paperwork.)
In any case, even if the Greek government decides I'm a Greek citizen with all the duties and responsibilities thereof, I still plan to go to the local polling place in New York on Election Day and cast my ballot for whoever. It's sort of a symbolic thing: I was born an American, and no matter what people may say at home or abroad, I intend to remain an American, and nobody but nobody is going to take that away from me.
Even if I had to go abroad to start my career.
And some day, I am coming home.