tickets & hooligans

bought my plane ticket back to the states yesterday. i thought the airline (KLM) was going to rob me, or if not rob me then make it extremely difficult to re-schedule the return leg of last year's round-trip ticket. i expected to pay over $1000 to do this. they did make it very difficult to re-schedule, in fact told me i simply could not (though i'd been told otherwise by two or three other people). but they surprised me by selling me a one-way ticket to Seattle for only $665. sweet (relatively). i leave Kyiv on September 9.

so when, on the way home from my relatively successful trip to the KLM office, i was robbed by two hooligans in our stairwell i didn't feel so bad. they took about $60. bastards. but they were kind enough not to steal my passport or plane ticket or bank card. it was the first time i've ever been robbed, and considering the places i've been it was long overdue. it still sucks, though.