Yeah, they let me go home from work two hours early because I was so miserable. It wouldn't have been so bad if it was only a hangover or only a lack of sleep, but having both sucks.
Yeah, Americans go crazy for foreign accents & such. When I go out with my fiance here, we make a lot of friends (well, the temporary kind at the bar or whatever), but I'm 99% sure they're more interested in him than me.