Radio Silence
July 22, 2007 – 12:50 am | by KristenI’ve been keeping seriously busy as the move approaches. It’s a curious thing how, no matter how many boxes you might fill, rooms never seem to actually start emptying. And now I’m working on things like the file cabinet and computer desk, which still leaves the furniture taking up just as much space as before but now results in a stack of boxes taking up more room. There was already too much in this space to keep things well organized. I’ve been planning ahead for a long, long time in terms of housewares and whatnot, and by this point I have enough to outfit the eventual house quite nicely, but far too much for my current place.
That, and I got my student visa application back from the consulate in Seattle with a helpful note about how the wait time had ballooned to 8-10 weeks and I should just apply at the border. Wonderful. (I’d applied with six weeks of time, which — given 2006-2007 historical data where 2/3 of all cases were processed in two days — seemed like massive overkill.) The problem with this: the movers need to see my documents before they load my stuff and my electricity at the house can’t be turned on without that official-like government number the visa will provide me.
So, I get to take a flight up to Spokane this week, drive to the border, fill it out ahead of time, drive back, and fly home. That will be one long day, if one that has some very pretty stretches of driving. (The other option was flying to Seattle and doing everything right at the downtown consulate. That had a very specific application time window of… 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM. No, thank you.)
Hence the title of the post: I may be running under radio silence for a bit.
Or I may talk a lot more as I vent!
Let’s wait and see!
It’s an adventure.
