apparently my atm card was not cancelled at all, according to my bank. i'm assuming it was demagnetized somehow during my 7 day bus journey. or it could also have been as a result of its use as my nightly dental floss (ran out of floss a month ago). still without an atm card, i took out a massive cash advance on my credit card, at an exorbitant fee of course. it feels like a vice grip slowly crushing my testesexuals b/c the juice (interest rate) apparently runs every day on the advance. well, what can you do.

now with my newfound wealth, i'm eating again and i can finally go back to US$5 hookers instead of the US$2 prostitutes i relied on in desperate times. female hookers cost a lot more tho.

the visa extension paperwork was submitted today. we'll see if they notice i'm a day over my visa. if so, i'm hopping on the first illegal immigrant barge headed to America, and to freedom. give me my freeeeeee!