It’s 3:45 a.m.

I’m currently waiting until 5:30 a.m. when my mom said I can wake her up so we can go scan my documents at the library and send them to Waheed. Why we didn’t take care of this why he was here, I don’t know. The time was such a blur… spending time together and trying to give family and friends their rights as well. And now he’s back. He almost didn’t make it, which would have been a strange twist of events. His connecting flight to JFK was cancelled. If he missed his Saudi flight he wouldn’t have been able to go back this semester because his entering visa expired on Saturday (and Saudi Airlines only flies out once or twice a week). But a detour to Newark and mad dash to JFK left him making it in time.

Anyway. He called at 1:30 this morning. I missed the call, but vaguely remembered the phone ringing. So when Musa woke up around 2:00, I checked and saw the missed call and called him back. So today is the day he’ll be going to hopefully get permission for my iqama. A lot rides on me getting the iqama so if you can please just pray or send good thoughts my way, I’d appreciate it.

On another note, since he’ll be in Riyadh, he’ll be getting to see Hind’s (AbdulRahman’s wife) family. I want to tell him to please somehow take pictures of all the kids to send to me because oddly enough I miss those kids so much (and Hind too, but since he won’t see her I’ll have to wait till I go). It’s funny because I got close to her right before we both left west lafayette. Even funnier because our relationship was based on barely being able to communicate to each other but somehow finding a way to forge a friendship. So I’m looking forward to seeing her again. Waheed’s been in contact w/ him for awhile… it seems life is good for them. In addition to his job at the uni, he’s been made the imam of a masjid there, so that’s nice.

So that’s it. I have an hour and a half longer to wait.

I’m (hopefully) going to be updating a lot more. This blog is probably going to be more personal and less of my articles and stuff. Just being honest. So I’m giving you the heads up in case you don’t want to read.

Till then…