quota

i only found out last night but apparently the government reached quota on petitioning for H1-B work visas over a week ago, more than two months earlier than the cap date last year. this left a lot of internationals fucked. some graduates even report having job offers rescinded. of course this development implies that i myself am unemployed with certainty. and the interviews i had gotten for june are now worthless and have to be cancelled. the finality of it all hit like a wall yesterday, a week before i would have heard back from the company that was trying to open a late-start position just for me.

hooray reality.

but what does this imply for the blog? well. not curtains. definitely not certain death. but certain dearth probably. as the internet don't grow on trees in the third world. hahaha, i find it funny that i am worried about not having regular internet access when i should be thinking of finding a place to live in trinidad! i literally can't fit in the old apt. no desire to sleep on a couch or have to *share* a room *smaller* than my current studio with another twenty something year old. i'm thinking of crashing by an aunt for a while. see if i can get work. and then see what happens from there. lots of seeing to do. and perhaps some rum and marijuana to dull the pain of the impending tedium. cuz i'll tell ya, there is nothing interesting to do. on the brighter side, i will not be prevented from entering clubs, or be mistaken for an employee working the aisles at target, based on my appearance. ooh... appearance. i will be brown again. one thing to smile about.