Why did I start this

The refugee wing awaits me tonight: I have to finish decorating it, having first pulled down just a tiny corner of wallpaper on exactly this date last year. When will I learn? Wish me luck, precision and energy, please. Meanwhile, a colleague has just emerged from a US immigration holding cell which he somehow ended up in en route to brief the State Department. We momentarily discussed how much we'd rather be where the other one is right now.