Well, looks like I'm heading to An Numaniyah after all! I got word last night they were looking for me to get on a helicopter to go to Numaniyah. "Wait" I thought to myself, "I thought I was staying in Baghdad." Well, I hadn't seen my supervisor for two days, and last word I had I was living here and travelling to various sites. So I just never got on the helicopter because the last order I had received was I was living here. I found out today that none of the information I had was correct: I am neither staying here in Baghdad, nor was I supposed to get on the helicopter last night! *lol*

So, the new story is that I am indeed going to An Numaniyah, as originally planned. However, I will be staying here in Baghdad for a couple of weeks to get trained up on some of the radio systems and other equipment I will be working with. Then, once the training is all done, I will be heading south to stay at An Numaniyah. We'll see though. There's a whole lot of confusion up here right now. No one really seems to know what's going on. My feeling is that if I played my cards right, I could probably just sit here in the US Embassy for the whole year and do nothing, and no one would notice.