I'm not surprised his parents are having cold feet! When you look up risk-aversion in the dictionary, their pictures are right there in the margin.
There's a time and a place for paranoia (and hurray that this is not occurring in, say, the presence of our mother!), but acknowledging that's what it is, and moving on, are also good things.
I was vaguely thinking that you could be the one who goes down for the inspection, and then has a job interview, but... that's a lot harder if, once you arrive, you don't have driving capability. Just getting Athens is not the whole of the battle. (Rent a bike!! Maybe that is too silly.)
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Date: 2008-05-28 02:13 pm (UTC)There's a time and a place for paranoia (and hurray that this is not occurring in, say, the presence of our mother!), but acknowledging that's what it is, and moving on, are also good things.
I was vaguely thinking that you could be the one who goes down for the inspection, and then has a job interview, but... that's a lot harder if, once you arrive, you don't have driving capability. Just getting Athens is not the whole of the battle. (Rent a bike!! Maybe that is too silly.)