Wednesday,
March 14, 2001

How did I offend you, O Lord?

Remember how I was talking yesterday about staying late at the office and all that?

I was right. Man, I was right. And I'll probably be here late tomorrow night, as well. Such an adventurous life I lead.

Oh, and to top it off, I now don't know if I can go to Aggiecon next week due to work conflicts. Shall we say that I'm moderately miffed about this? Especially since a whole bunch of interesting people such as Lee Martindale, the beauteous Jules, Lisa Holcomb (aka the Pregnant Lady), and other wild and wonderful people are planning on attending. There will be much singing and storytelling and laughing all around, and I was really looking forward to this, dammit.

No Acapulco, no Aggiecon, I still don't know if I got the DMB tickets, and I'm still in the office at a ridiculous time of the night. I don't know who I pissed off Up There, but I'm sorry about whatever it was, honest.

But wait, there's more. In his search for a clean police record from Canada as part of the Green Card process, Lyn learned two rather upsetting things today:

1. It doesn't take forty days for the office in charge of producing police reports to process a request -- it takes sixty. Two months.
2. He got an email receipt from the processing office today. Even though he mailed his request in early February, they didn't start working on it until March 1st, which means at the very earliest he won't get it until May 1st.

Part of the problem is that they don't just do a simple name search -- they check his police record based on his fingerprints. And as this office gets 10,000 requests a month, they have quite the backlog, as you can imagine. As you can also imagine, he's intensely depressed about this -- we were hoping to get him here by late April, and now it looks like he may get here just in time for his birthday.

In June. Late June at that. Fuck a swan, man. He's going to fax the embassy and see if he can't schedule an appointment in six weeks, on the basis that three of his police reports on both sides of living in Canada have come back clean, so couldn't the waiting period be concurrent instead of consecutive? Hopefully they'll go for it, since they should have three reports by now in addition to his physical. But this is a federal office, after all, which means bureaucracy runs rampant.

So, um, anybody out there know anyone in the INS? Just a good word at this point would be deeply appreciated.

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