Hilarious journal

[Jacob Orlove]

Waiting In Line (in the Czech Republic).

I'm a medical student at Charles University in Prague. Prague is the home of Franz Kafka, and the Czech people celebrate this fact every day by having the bureaucracy that Franz Kafka wrote about. I'm pretty sure this means that I am slowly being turned into a giant insect as some sort of modernist commentary. I welcome our insectile overlords. They can't be any more Byzantine or arbitrary than the ones we have now.

[Dr. Sylvan]

The medical study at Charles University is interspersed with language courses. Not just Latin, which is mostly there because the institution is over 600 years old and they don't change everything all at once. But also Czech language because that's the national language here. Perfectly reasonable and I'm totally with them on this point.

But of course, in being exposed to the Czech language you are forced to come face to face with madness.

Awesome.

[Grand Inquisitor]

So good.

So naturally I decide to go to the US Embassy because helping American citizens through this process is practically their whole job. I mean, it's not like the United States needs to conduct any carefully worded diplomacy to prevent war from breaking out or anything. Diplomatic channels to the Czech Republic should mostly come down to calling the Czech parliament from time to time:

”You guys still there? I mean... you haven't broken into more countries or something have you? Good... well... keep that up I guess.”