A Word of Clarification

An obligatory topic of conversation when first meeting someone here is previous postings. In this line of work, most people have a pretty good idea of how long a person stays in different posts. In our case, that post was Prague, which is very few people's idea of a difficult place to live. And so a typical follow-up comment is, "So you were there three years?", which is the typical tour. We have to clarify that in our case, it was only 21 months; we then have to explain why, which is, we curtailed from Prague in order to come to Afghanistan. We then have some 'splaining to do with the psychologist. My sessions are on Mondays and Thursdays.