The INS is on Line 2...

First, it was 13 Mexican family friends staying in my house for a couple days to see a graduation ceremony in Boston 2 weeks ago. Then, the Rhode Island friend admits his Mexican girlfriend will be living with him for the month of July, a long enough timespan to force him to shed all the veils on his true personality he was able to maintain while the relationship was long-distance. Extremely long-distance. Most recently (2:30am last night) a Mexican acquaintance of mine and her friend arrived on the Fung Wah for a few days of NYC summer tourism, and will be crashing in my living room all week. This includes the Thursday move-out of the undead couple in my second bedroom; do guests usually mind sleeping in an apartment piled waist-high with cardboard boxes? Then again, if the LA Times article today on my former expat home city is any indicator, maybe this influx of international visitors isn't so hard to explain after all...