A Legal Alien

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11 June 2005

I've had a chance to think AND get completely overwhelmed. I'll have to sell my car, finish my paper and dissertation, find a new place to live, pack up, move, figure out what the heck I'm going to teach, get a car here, take care of my paperwork for my work permit. I also need to find out from my CPA what the tax implications are for my house proceeds. I have to file income tax in the UK AND in the US. I think the law says that if I make less than $80,000 overseas I won't owe anything but I still have to file. Do I need to reinvest my house money or pay capital gains? Does it matter if I reinvest overseas? Will they recognize that?
Having to learn a whole new system is so overwhelming. I don't even know how to take attendance or any of that stuff. I don't know where anything is. The school is a maze of the original building (built in 1874) and new additions. I'll be lost for the first month.
My phone has continued to ring for interviews. I had 4 yesterday alone. I don't know the area where the school is well enough to really look for a place to live. My friend Karen has an addition to her house, an annex, that she said I could stay in until I get myself sorted out. I think I'm going to take her up on it. She lives in the next village from where my school is. If I can just settle in there for a bit and then figure out where to live or if I should buy or whatever.
So in a word, YES I'm beyond overwhelmed. I have school work to finish too, that has to be my first priority or I'll never get it done. And yet, here I sit, too overwhelmed to do much of anything. My brain is a bit paralyzed.

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