OK, I'm Sorry I Ate Your Fish!

And I'm sorry for my long absence. Honestly, I just haven't felt like I had much to say. But here's an update:

I'm working again, at the Seattle Symphony ticket office. I'm doing the same job I had before I moved to Poland in 2003. I'm trying very hard to be grateful that I'm employed, rather than feeling like I'm going backwards. It would help if we were getting more than 1 call every 20 minutes or so.

I'm hoping to be heading back overseas this fall. I've applied for a teaching fellowship, very similar to Peace Corps except I would actually get paid. I should hear by the end of May if/where I'm going.

Um...really, that's it. My life just doesn't have the same here's-something-interesting-and-foreign-that-happened-to-me quality that it did in Poland. You can see why I want to leave the country again!

But on a different note, my title does put me in mind of a question I've been wanting to ask for a few years now. What, exactly, constitutes an apology? Let me give you an unfortunate real-life example:

Him: I owe you a big apology.
Me: OK (expecting something along the lines of, "I'm sorry for saying something mean to you & making you feel bad about yourself.").
Him: That's it.

Apparently, there are people for whom the mere expression of the intent to apologize is equal to the act of apologizing. While in my mind, I am STILL owed an apology by someone who shall remain nameless, especially since I haven't seen him in almost 6 years.

I'm curious, not only to find out what others think, but to discover if anyone is still out there, desperately waiting for my long-awaited return to blogging. So please submit your opinions: did he apologize appropriately, or should I hunt him down & demand proper atonement?