you said you wanted it done, right?

One of the deputy editors just came through lamenting that his life is in shambles. Turns out, he has two kids attending school in the States, and he's been trying to get them enrolled somewhere in Abu Dhabi for weeks and weeks. So today he gets a phone call from the education ministry telling him to have his kids in the country by Sunday for aptitude tests.

We wake up every day expecting the equivalent of a surprise jury duty notice, but for everything.