why must you play with me like this? Seriously...? they were supposed to fax confirmation that i graduated(duh because i got a bachelor's and master's how?) but so far nothing. when i called this morning the woman said she never heard of my request. oh yeah, i have the utmost confidence in these people. seriously, i'll probably have to get my ( Read more... )

my lj turns FIVE in a little less than a month! that's nuts. i never thought i'd stick to it but here i am, nearly five years later. i started my lj as a way to keep in contact with may and amy as they both had them. i was totally resistant at first too and look at me now... geez. weird! i'd say lj is officially a habit, yeah?

i stayed at work until 8:30 tonight working on my stupid budget. this after spending most of the afternoon with sarah at the bookmill working on my end of the year report. today i worked myself into such a foam of stress that i was having difficulty locating my shoulders in their normal position and not up around my ears. and thus while working ( Read more... )

I just called port st.joe high school to ask about an unofficial transcript. the woman asked me if i have the same name that i had in high school (snort, i'm probably one of the only women in my class that does!) and then she told me that those records are manually archived and she's going to need to dig for it. (double snort, they don't have me ( Read more... )

OK so I've applied. Seriously. That bit is done. Now I just have to get together a zillion documents (you SERIOUSLY need confirmation that I graduated from high school?!) and go to my appointment in Hartford on Thursday at noon. My stomache is seriously fluttery. Please oh please oh please oh please work out! PLEASE! I'm going to actually ( Read more... )

i just got an email from an immigration person at edinburgh. she forwarded a message that she'd gotten from someone at the ny consulate. the message said that i COULD in fact apply for my visa now. um.... now i'm freaking out a bit. i need to get all of my documents together and get started on this just about right this moment!!! and i may be ( Read more... )

about big kink-y plans (ha, don't i wish it was big kinky plans instead?) but trying to focus on other things instead. joanie and i went for dinner at panera and then headed to la fiorentina for tea and italian baked goods. (oh, cannoli o' my heart...) joanie got me talking about the big move and i started to let myself get excited. so many ( Read more... )

has been a gradual process today. i am going to have to fly. dammit. i'm not going to undo my trip with my dad. that just doesn't make any sense. instead we'll do what we'd planned and i'll work at stirling and at some point in august i'll come home for a week and a half or so and get this visa shite taken care of and then head on back. i'll ( Read more... )

ok anxiety has really and truly hit. if i don't end up with an ulcer i don't know... so newest update: must rebook OR fly home and get visa. rebooking will be utterly pain in my ass-tastic. for what date would i even rebook and is it even possible? we bought insurance but i don't know that it'll cover visa idiocy. yeah, that's doubtful. ( Read more... )

tonight was supposed to be visa go-night. unfortunately there was a brand new red alert paragraph at the top of the student visa page letting me know that if i tried to apply for my visa more than three months from the first day o' class i'd get the big reject. three months from first day is june 16th. i'm supposed to be leaving the country on ( Read more... )