Oh la la Fanime!
I lived through a few intense weeks, but my diploma is now in the bag, and with stellar scores! I've gotten so many congratulations from the professors, it's really amazing. But it's only one step in my journey, as I am continuing my studies in September to get my PHD.
At least I'll get some time off this summer to relax and continue to work on house renovations... and hopefully costumes! I'm feeling the sewing bug again, so if anyone has plans, do pass them along, I'm itching to make something BIG!
I don't think I've told my tale of woe to everyone here yet, but it turns out I lost my file with my passports, and am now stuck in the US until I can fix this problem, impersonating a ping-pong ball that France and Canada keep on whacking back and forth because no one wants responsibility for getting me new paperwork. All of my american friends looked at me with a total lack of understanding, as they can get emergency passports in hours, but they don't realize that in the Banana Republic of Canadia, or the Bureaucratic Monarchy of France, nothing is that simple. Canada initially quoted me 15 months. Yes. FIFTEEN. The woman at the French embassy laughed at me. I hung up on her. I'm fighting my way through this, of course, but all in all I am in the 10th circle of hell: bureaucracy.
The result is that Diechan talked me into visiting her and going to Fanime so I would have some sort of vacation after all. She's even going to stuff me into costumes, so I'm looking forward to this.
So the big question is, who is going to Fanime? What are you wearing? And shall we meet up? I haven't been on the west coast in so long!
When life hands you lemon, it's lemonade time!
At least I'll get some time off this summer to relax and continue to work on house renovations... and hopefully costumes! I'm feeling the sewing bug again, so if anyone has plans, do pass them along, I'm itching to make something BIG!
I don't think I've told my tale of woe to everyone here yet, but it turns out I lost my file with my passports, and am now stuck in the US until I can fix this problem, impersonating a ping-pong ball that France and Canada keep on whacking back and forth because no one wants responsibility for getting me new paperwork. All of my american friends looked at me with a total lack of understanding, as they can get emergency passports in hours, but they don't realize that in the Banana Republic of Canadia, or the Bureaucratic Monarchy of France, nothing is that simple. Canada initially quoted me 15 months. Yes. FIFTEEN. The woman at the French embassy laughed at me. I hung up on her. I'm fighting my way through this, of course, but all in all I am in the 10th circle of hell: bureaucracy.
The result is that Diechan talked me into visiting her and going to Fanime so I would have some sort of vacation after all. She's even going to stuff me into costumes, so I'm looking forward to this.
So the big question is, who is going to Fanime? What are you wearing? And shall we meet up? I haven't been on the west coast in so long!
When life hands you lemon, it's lemonade time!