As an off-shore fraud analyst for a major U.S. bank, a typical day in my life consists of talking on the phone to at least fifty credit card account holders--Americans located halfway across the world from where I am physically located. Part of the job requires me to be at the office during ungodly local hours, which is simply noon to early evening in Eastern Standard Time. Embracing the U.S. timezone because it is essential to my work schedule has another downside apart from keeping the hours of a living dead. It causes me to have the tendency to be a day late in paying bills, or thinking that an anniversary or birthday is tomorrow when in fact it is already today.
Another thing about being an employee of a U.S. firm, is that I am more updated with their current affairs and news than I am of what is happening here at the home-front. In fact, I am currently following the horrific events unfolding in Watertown, Mass. where there is an ongoing manhunt for the two brothers believed to be responsible for the bombings during the Boston Marathon last Monday.
It's so hard to imagine what could have driven these suspects to resort to such acts of violence, harming so many people, claiming innocent lives. As I'm watching the news right now, it's early evening where I am, and it's early morning in Boston where the police just had the longest night of their lives, chasing and exchanging shots with the violent suspects, killing one and still chasing the other who managed to escape. It's like watching a scene from an action movie, but what's really disturbing is the knowledge that it is for real, and no movie director is about to yell "Cut!" any time soon.
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