MENA Daily Chat 1.0

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

Well MENA the door closed forever on me for the government job I was up for recently. In the bigger picture it was meant to be so. After getting the news and talking it over with the family here I've decided to pursue my Masters again sooner than I thought I would. This means for the next several months I'll be studying for the GRE to retake it & getting applications ready to send off this fall for acceptance next fall. We are also a week and a day away from our AOS interview so in the meantime we'll be collecting ourselves and what we need to finish putting together for our evidence. We're up for our 10 year green card & I am so ready to be done with immigration for the next several years. Hopefully all will go well. I'll check in and let you all know how the interview goes. I know I also share that interview day with MENA VJ's own Jackie, "the hostess with the mostess", who went into "Sandbox/Slumber Party" retirement a while back. I wish her all the best as well in their upcoming interview.

Since I've been here on VJ it seems the old MENA has mostly moved on and passed the torch over to the new MENA on VJ. Since the beginning of the year it seems there is a new core group here that checks into the daily thread with a few old stragglers in various phases of the immigration process and some newbies. This is just a suggestion but maybe instead of posting daily threads with a limited number of posts each day we might like to start one thread where MENA can check in with each other and chat daily. For example like the "Sub-Saharan Cyber Cafe" thread in Sub-Sahara forum or like I've seen it done in various other regional forums. You can still post your Happy Caturday's and your Hump Day pictures or whatever day of the week pictures when the day arrives it will all just be in the same thread until you reach near or at 5,000 post at which point for server purposes the thread will need to be locked and a new version of the MENA Daily Chat would need to be started, i.e. "MENA Daily Chat 1.1", then "MENA Daily Chat 1.2", then "MENA Daily Chat 1.3", until you get to 1.9 then you start at 2.0. YKWIM? I don't know what comes after 9.9. Maybe 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, ect?

If you all don't like this idea you can all certainly consider this the Thursday Daily Thread and carry on per usual. But if you do like the idea of a consolidated daily chat thread in MENA you can even have the regional mod, Charles, change the name of this daily chat thread if you come up with a more creative name, and like the new one you all come up with, and would like to stick with it.

I wish you all the best and take care of yourselves.

xx

[~Jackie~ 30]

Great idea Olivia!

Good luck on your upcoming interview next week!

Jackie

[JeanneVictoria 55]

Well MENA the door closed forever on me for the government job I was up for recently. In the bigger picture it was meant to be so. After getting the news and talking it over with the family here I've decided to pursue my Masters again sooner than I thought I would. This means for the next several months I'll be studying for the GRE to retake it & getting applications ready to send off this fall for acceptance next fall. We are also a week and a day away from our AOS interview so in the meantime we'll be collecting ourselves and what we need to finish putting together for our evidence. We're up for our 10 year green card & I am so ready to be done with immigration for the next several years. Hopefully all will go well. I'll check in and let you all know how the interview goes. I know I also share that interview day with MENA VJ's own Jackie, "the hostess with the mostess", who went into "Sandbox/Slumber Party" retirement a while back. I wish her all the best as well in their upcoming interview.

Since I've been here on VJ it seems the old MENA has mostly moved on and passed the torch over to the new MENA on VJ. Since the beginning of the year it seems there is a new core group here that checks into the daily thread with a few old stragglers in various phases of the immigration process and some newbies. This is just a suggestion but maybe instead of posting daily threads with a limited number of posts each day we might like to start one thread where MENA can check in with each other and chat daily. For example like the "Sub-Saharan Cyber Cafe" thread in Sub-Sahara forum or like I've seen it done in various other regional forums. You can still post your Happy Caturday's and your Hump Day pictures or whatever day of the week pictures when the day arrives it will all just be in the same thread until you reach near or at 5,000 post at which point for server purposes the thread will need to be locked and a new version of the MENA Daily Chat would need to be started, i.e. "MENA Daily Chat 1.1", then "MENA Daily Chat 1.2", then "MENA Daily Chat 1.3", until you get to 1.9 then you start at 2.0. YKWIM? I don't know what comes after 9.9. Maybe 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, ect?

If you all don't like this idea you can all certainly consider this the Thursday Daily Thread and carry on per usual. But if you do like the idea of a consolidated daily chat thread in MENA you can even have the regional mod, Charles, change the name of this daily chat thread if you come up with a more creative name, and like the new one you all come up with, and would like to stick with it.

I wish you all the best and take care of yourselves.

xx

Olivia i'm so sorry to hear you didn't get the position. I do hope you will keep applying for these government jobs, but i'm also happy you have decided to

pursue your Masters again!! Best of luck to you sweetie from one of your "old VJ'ers"!!

Wael has also been studying the GMAT so I know how much time is involved. Wishing you all the best with your studying and with your

AOS interview.

Love the new idea!!

Great idea Olivia!

Good luck on your upcoming interview next week!

Jackie

Good luck Jackie!!

[FaithfulandTrue 6]

Good morning MENA!!!! Hey Olivia and Jackie!!! Aw man Olivia.. I really wanted you to get that job I was thinking about that this morning and was going to ask you how it went well whatever you decide to do i pray for the best for you.. good luck on your upcoming interview.. i pray all goes well with that.. your idea sounds good for the threads.. i really do miss everyone posting and wondered where did everyone go everyone have a great day today

Edited September 9, 2010 by wonderful07 2010

[JeanneVictoria 55]

Good morning MENA!!!! Hey Olivia and Jackie!!! Aw man Olivia.. I really wanted you to get that job I was thinking about that this morning and was going to ask you how it went well whatever you decide to do i pray for the best for you.. good luck on your upcoming interview.. i pray all goes well with that.. your idea sounds good for the threads.. i really do miss everyone posting and wondered where did everyone go everyone have a great day today

Morning MsW!!

[Jenn! 918]

'Tis the end of an era....

[~Jackie~ 30]

Jenn~ your lil man is adorable!

Jax

[FaithfulandTrue 6]

Morning MsW!!

Hey Jeanne sorry I didn't see your post.. how are you doing

[JeanneVictoria 55]

Hey Jeanne sorry I didn't see your post.. how are you doing

I'm doing great thanks! Hope you have a good day!

[~PalmTreeGurl~ 154]

Hey MENA Ladies! Glad to see yall doing ok today! We are about to adopt a kitten that was left at a grocery store. Shes grey with tan patches. We are going to have to come up with a good name for her.

Hopefully my other cats Candy & Alex wont be too jealous or mean to her bcz shes so little.

We are still in the process of the house buying. The one we have been working on getting is still being worked on. Waiting to see if the sellers will pay to fix the roof, of if they will pay for it out of their money at closing... If they agree then we are good to go and almost done.

[Ban Hammer 13,429]

having a continual running thread is a good idea, as long as there's no bickering.

[sara535 15]

having a continual running thread is a good idea, as long as there's no bickering.

right

hi everyone!

[~Jackie~ 30]

Charles you make me 'as long as there is no bickering' ...look around brother...its MENA~land

Hi Sara! Good luck on the house Tamara!

Jax

[mandyu1 5]

Good Morning MENA!! TGIF!!

Olivia, I'm so sorry you didn't get the job, I was really hoping and praying for you.

Happy EID everyone also!!

Well I haven't been around for a few days, I had my surgery on Wednesday, thank God everything went well. I got home last night, and I'm still somewhat out of it So if I write something and don't make a lot of sense please excuse me LOL.

Hope everyone has a great day!!!

[FaithfulandTrue 6]

Good Morning MENA!! TGIF!!

Olivia, I'm so sorry you didn't get the job, I was really hoping and praying for you.

Happy EID everyone also!!

Well I haven't been around for a few days, I had my surgery on Wednesday, thank God everything went well. I got home last night, and I'm still somewhat out of it So if I write something and don't make a lot of sense please excuse me LOL.

Hope everyone has a great day!!!

Good morning MENA!!! Hey Mandy, glad your surgery went well .... everybody have a great Friday