From: Jennifer Chetrit
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Hey Trisha!
I am really really happy to hear that you are having a ball overseas. Wow! It seems as though you will have seen the whole world soon. I am really happy for you. Enjoy every minute!
I am sorry that I was not able to catch you before you left. I just spoke to your mum for 1/2 hour. It was great but it made me miss you heaps.
I know that I should have called more often, but I was sick of pretending that things were wonderful here. It was really depressing and I didnt really want to tell you all about the bad parts of being here. Cause lets face it, noone wants to hear someone complain about being on the other side of the worls with their boyfriend.
I am going home in 2 weeks and am looking forward to seeing my sis, and my future niece or nephew in my sis's belly :), my folks, my friends also. I can't tell you how much I have missed you.
I think I have tried really hard to find a job, but I have had no luck and therefore I think I need to seriously assess the future I have in Chicago and ultimately with Jon. I really love him, Trish. He has been really supportive, Loving, and generous but all this has caused a lot of stress on our relaitionship.
I wish I had a sign that told me whether I should just stick it out in the US, or come home? Maybe me not finding a job has been a sign... Can you believe that it has taken me 5 months to actually make 2 friends. TWO whole f@c*in friends. Its my own fault.
I dont think I can continue to depend on my parents like this. They are retired and cant support me forever.
Also the worst part is being fully dependent on Jon. Its not like he makes me feel like I am a burden but I hate him paying for everuthing all the time. I hope you understand. I really wished
I had called you more times and could call you now.
I hope that you are too upset with me. But I promise that I stayed distant not because i didnt want to keep in touc but because I didnt really have anything exciting and interesting to say. I was kinda sick of making it seem like I was having a ball here. I do really totally love being with Jon, but everything esle has been tough.
I want to invite you to stay here in the spare bedroom if you want to. You can stay for a week or something as I feel really bad that you will have to change your plans because of me. It will be heaps cheaper than staying somewhere dodgy. Plus Jon is really nice! It wont be as good as me being here with you. I really hope that one of these days we will get to travel together like we always said we would...
I will be here till mid July and get back just in time for my sis to have the babay. I am so excited and happy for her. She has had a tough pregnancy plus all the shit with that law case. Do you remember?
So let me know what you want to do.
I love you, you are one of my best friends. You have always been here for me when I needed you, and I miss you heapos!
Hugguroonies...
Jenn (aka Maureen)
From: Trisha Farnan
Hi Jen. I hope this finds you well. Please update me on what is going on.
I wonder ifyou're home yet? I am in London atm, and preparing for a big
meeting of friends in the heart of town. It is pretty exciting. Yet I
am wondering what's going on with you and your family. Hope your sister's
doing okay!
I would really appreciate it if I could stay at Jon's place for a couple
of days. I aim to arrive in Chicago around the 28th of August and I am
leaving on the 31st. If you could either send me his email address so I
can ask him about this, or ask him yourself on my behalf, that would be
great. I hope things work out so that I can have a look around Chicago
at least.
I need to go out now - I'm gonna try and get to a screening of Harry
Potter at the Imax in London. It's 7 pounds 90 which i really a lot of
money, but I think it will be worth it. Maybe. Hehe. People have been
disappointed with the film but maybe seeing it at Imax will make it that much better. We can hope!
I'll talk to you soon *hugs*
xoxox Sheila
From: Jennifer Chetrit
Sorry about the delay in getting back to you, again!!! Wow! I can t believe that you will be in Chicago this weekend. It went so quickly and I am really happy that you will be able to stay with Jon even though unfortunetly I wont be there.
We have so much to catch up on. I really hope that you are having a ball cause you truly deserve it after having worked so hard.
I know you'll love Chicago or Chi-town as they call it. There's heaps and heaps of fun stuff to do plus you'll be there in summer so you wont have to freez your ass off :). I miss ya heaps and really wish I could be there.
I ll call you at Jon's on the weekend. So we can have a little goss.
So, I have been really busy trying to find a decent job here. Sure its easy to get a bookkeping job or something like that but now that I have graduated I want the real thing. Do you know what I mean? I just want something that will provide me with growth and opportunities. I didn't go to uni and work my butt off to do a shit job. Its kinda hard to get something good at this time of the year as all the grad positions have been filled. Like all the ones that I rejected the offers to when I left in January. But never mind, I am staying confident that something will come up soon. I have already had some pretty good offers but not "it" exactly.
Also I am loving spending time with my family and especially the new addition. He is soooooooooooooooooooo cute! You'll have to meet him as soon as you get back. By the way, when is that?
Also, what's your plan for the rest of the year?
To tell you the truth, most of my friends are really busy and do not have that much time to do stuff with me. That's ok, I understand that they have their own busy lives.
Oh, I wanted to say watch out for Jon asking you heaps of questions, as it's the first time that he meets you and gets to be with you alone. I bet he ll want to know all the goss and what I have said about my feelings for him. So dont get me into too much trouble will ya? :) hehe
I mean seriously though, feel free to try and get info from him about " our future together" and stuff. Then once your mission is complete you can report to me. It can be like our own version of Allias. lol:)
By the way, you should know that the project that Jon was working on has been "aborted" basically their clients gave them the boot, so his job right now is really uncertain.
Also he has been acting kinda weird on the phone latelly so let me know if you notice anything odd.
Otherwise I want to hear about your adventures.
I miss ya
Lots of love
always
Mauzza
PS JUST SO YOU HAVE ALL THE DETAILS, JON'S NUMBER IS 1630 248 7769, THE ADDRESS IS 1335 N. DEARBORN CHICAGO IL 60610 APPT 4.
From: Trisha Farnan
Hehehe, you crack me up Jenn. I will report any details to you that I
get :P You know my first loyalty is always to you *winks* I won't tell
him that you hate his guts or anything :) From the issues you have
discussed with me I can sorta see his point of view as well as yours, so
I have a balanced view I think. But I will be very careful what I say.
If he calls you up furious, IT WASN'T MY FAULT!! Hehe.
I think it'll be kinda weird being at his place without you there, but
it's gonna be ok. I have lots of stuff to do in Chicago...including
hunting down Billy Corgan's house :) I need to enlist the help of my
Smashing Pumpkins buddy Steph (I met her online before I met any of my
other net friends, back in 1999) because she had a photo of the house.
It is actually an old house of his, I believe he sold it because people
were going through his trash cans too much and he got sick of it :p Who'd
be a rock star eh? Well, the answer to that is easy - Me, me!!!
Fuck!! I just wrote heaps of this email and then accidentally deleted it.
I did that thing where you accidentally hit 'undo' too many times, and
you undo stuff you didn't want to undo. Bloody hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I said something about how if you get a crappy job, it's okay as long as
it might lead you to a better job within that company, or maybe give
you some good contacts in other companies. That is something the woman I'm
staying with here in London mentioned to me and I thought she had a good point.
I can't believe that tomorrow I am heading to the US again. For my whole
trip it has seemed like quite a way in the future. I will be on US soil
again tomorrow!! Very freaky ;) I am really looking forward to it
though, and not JUST because I'll be escaping the bloody UK pound. OMG,
it is so horrible! The cursed � can get stuffed as far's I'm concerned :P
I have just read a book that I really enjoyed, involving Scotland in the
18th century. It features a really sexy Scot and a feisty heroine who
you can really relate to. They get it on of course and there are some
really good sex scenes in it (hehehehe). The girls I stayed with in
Holland told me about some other books that had great scenes in them too.
I'm going to have to hunt those books down. Even if you do have an
active sex life (which I don't), you can still enjoy these sorts of
things (as the Dutch girls demonstrated - one of them has sex at least
once every 2 days and she still loves her erotic writing). We had some
VERY interesting and frank discussions in which there were seriously no
holds barred. I was quite stunned but it was also quite refreshing - but
apparently they talk that way all the time. One of them, Wendy, was
saying that when she first got to know them it took her quite a while to
get used to it, but she is used to it by now. Hehe. Apparently it's a
very Dutch way of being.
I better go now before I lose more of this email. I look forward to
talking to you again - it has been so bloody long!! And I can't wait to
meet your nephew seeing as I haven't met your niece yet. I bet he is a
real cutie :) I hope Steph is doing well and that things have calmed
down for her. Mum mentioned to me that she hadn't heard from you and
asked if I had, so, as amusing as this sounds, you could always call her
and have a chat ;) She'd probably like to hear from ya. Funny isn't it?
Hehe.
Love ya Mauzza!
xox Sheizza
(nobody would know what those nicknames meant but us, eh? Unless we explained...)