Nekkid, Clueless and Feelin' Good: January 30, 2001

Tuesday,
January 30, 2001

I did something good today

Can't go into explicit detail, if only because it wouldn't make any sense to non-TSB employees, but let us simply say that my manager is rather pleased with me at the moment. With any luck, this may have additional knock-on effects that will help get Eva over here for a short-term contract, as well. One may hope.

Now if we could only get Lyndon over here, as well. I couldn't believe all the hoops he has to jump through in order to get the green card -- it now turns out that in order to get the Canadian police report, he has to send a set of local police-certified fingerprints to the RCMP. Except the Swedish police don't take fingerprints unless you've done something wrong, so it looks like he may not be able to convince them to fingerprint him and stamp it. In that case, a nice lady at the Canadian embassy has told him to come down and she'll fingerprint him, stamp it with the Canadian embassy stamp and include a note to the effect that the local police won't do fingerprints, et al. Which the RCMP can still refuse if they feel like being picky.

And this is just one police record. He still has to get the English, Swedish and Dutch ones, too. I'm kicking myself, I really am -- I should have looked into this back in September so that we could have started the process immediately. I simply didn't think that it would be this difficult for the spouse of an American citizen to get a green card. More fool me -- I've done enough national paperwork, I should have known better.

The only good thing about all this is that he can apparently get a job at the GRC in Dallas without a problem. Of course, the situation with that is, how will it affect the green card process -- does getting an L visa scotch the green card? The good side is that he could then be here in a month or so. The bad side is that it then ties him to Ericsson for two years while we restart the green card all over again here, and he was really hoping to do something else in a year.

Arrgh.

At least the quilt is proceeding on time. I'm doing twelve squares, each with a fussy-cut center of a zodiac sign, and two are done. At this rate, I should have all twelve squares done by next week, at which point I can decide whether I want to use them all in the top or do six and six on the top and back (depending on total size -- each square is 12 inches, and ideally this should be something that a baby can use).

Of course, the Webrats February Masochist's Dare starts on Thursday, which is going to put a crimp in my quilting time. On the other hand, however, 2K of words per day for the entire month should give me a complete novel by the beginning of March. And when I've peeked in that little mental room marked "WKQA," I've actually noticed serious plot cohesion, so maybe I could actually finish the mother this time.

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