I lost both my keys and Terri today....its been stressful.

A few days ago, after I left the gym, I realized that Terri had called me two times, and I had not answered. I'm a bit of a drama queen, so I stated, " O no, Terri is going to think that I died! I haven't talked to her in hours!" At which point the person who I was with mocked my interdependent relationship with Terri. I laughed too....thinking that I was only joking and not really that paranoid.

Oh, I was wrong. So, so wrong. Today, Terri dissapeared. I realized this at about 8pm when Henrike and I were talking...that was when we had discovered that Terri had been unaccounted for four hours! Henrike and I became more and more "without a trace" and "CSI" while we attempted to track her down. Here is what we discovered:
1) She had last been seen at Old Arbat with Vlada at 4 sharp
2) she was supposed to meet someone there
3) she was not answered her phone or texts
4) she had a birthday present with her

this is what we knew:

1) This is the old holiday that celebrated the October Revolution...which meant that drunk and racist people were out
2) Terri is asian and does not speak a word of Russian
3) she was supposed to be at home by at least 9 because today was Kristen's birthday
4) we know all of her friends.;...and none of them were with her
5) exccept the one boy who is currently in San Diego

In other words: Dooooommmmmm.
So we panicked, imagining Terri sold by Russian pimps, Terri captured and used as a drug mule, Terri dead in the streets after being hit by a driver afflicted with road rage. It was not fun....as each hour passed we became more and more frightened, certain that something dreadful happened.
After calling several people, one of which who told me that kidnapping aren't that common, and one of which assured me that "Terri was taken by militia" ...an ambiguous scenario...since no one really knows if that is a good thing or not, I had finally had it and began to dial the US embassy so that I could tell them that a petite vietnamese-American was lost in Russia, and that they had to find her...when...I was texted by Terri, telling me that she was fine. Crisis averted, though I think I may have aged 10 years.