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[qatarperegrine]

Things that made me smile today:

• Getting our India visas. Yay! The man at the embassy saw I was travelling to Varanasi and asked if I was going for religious reasons, so I answered that I was interested in religion. "Which religion?" he asked. "All of them!" I answered. "You can't be interested in ALL religions! Just one religion!" he replied. So I told him that I was going to Varanasi because I'm interested in Hinduism, and didn't tell him that I'm going to Bodh Gaya because I'm interested in Buddhism and Delhi because I'm interested in Islam, not to mention that I am myself a Christian. But I wish I'd asked him which religion it is that I'm supposed to be interested in!
  
  
• I had to get a prescription refilled and I accidentally arrived at the hospital just before it opened, but they let me in anyway. There was only one other patient there -- and she had the same first name as me! When a nurse came to the otherwise-empty waiting room and called our name, we laughed and said, "Which one?" That happens to some people all the time, but it had never happened to me before. It had never happened to the Dutch version of me, either.
  
  
• In the brief, entertainment-oriented news byte between pop songs on an Arabic language radio station, I heard a news story which I have since reconstructed to be the sale of TV rights to Amber Frey's tell-all book about Scott Peterson. But the only phrase they said in English was what stuck out: Witness for the Persecution. Oops.
  
  
• We just got back from a concert given by five semifinalists of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. Holy cow were they good! All between the ages of 16 and 19, and such a talented bunch. Hearing Vivaldi on the marimba made me smile. But the funniest moment was when the trumpet finished his second solo and, moved by its beauty, I thought, "Wow, I never liked Gershwin before I heard this guy play it!" The solo was, of course, followed by an announcement that the program had been changed and the previous piece had been the Rachmaninov and not the Gershwin. That's more like it!

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Glad you are smiling.May you continue to smile.