Wednesday, November 28, 2007

B is for Beauracracy

I've been having some administrative problems lately, and I'm really looking forward to the day when I am no longer sitting on hold with various offices and traveling across the department to do in person what the office was incapable of doing by mail three months ago. And now my visa is about to expire while the people in said offices have done nothing with my file. And, in Bordeaux the medical office has yet to schedule me an appointment so I can get my Titre de Sejour (which is to replace my visa by Dec 16th). ARG! And, I'm glad that my return ticket has been uncancelled afterall (thanks British Airways, you suck). And, I'm a little angry with the exchange rate because after you convert my salary into dollars, the loan people thing I'm making enough money, even though all of my expenses are in EUROS.

On the bright side, the Department of Transportation people were very accomodating in getting an extension on my drivers license renewal (which would have expired on my birthday two weeks ago). Who would have thought the drivers license people would be the easiest to work with?

Today I'm off to the prefecture to try to get a little assistance with my housing with a file full of things I sent them a long time ago. They asked me if I had a particular document to bring, but I only have a copy because THEY have for the ORIGIONAL from first time I sent this in. ARGH!!

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