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My visa issues are bothering me. I have spoken to Martin two days before the meeting about the problem and he has reassured me and told me that he will speak with David either within the two days before the meeting, or definitely after we come back. Well, he hasn't done it before the meeting, and now it's been a week and a half since we came back and he still hasn't done anything. I have reminded him of that on Friday, and he nodded and said that he will give David a call, but still - nothing. And today he is away, he must have gone to another meeting or something. I have a bad feeling about all of this. I don't think he wants to deal with it.
Yesterday a reporter came from the business section from the Charlottesville Daily Progress newspaper and took a bunch of pictures of me holding a gel. The day before he interviewed Martin and our company will be featured there some time soon. I'm going to be in a paper!!..
I have been throwing around an idea of getting a masters degree in criminal justice. Ironically, VCU seems to be the only school that offers a program that interests me. I found some other program in some private school in Arlington, but that was in Forensic Psychology which is an interesting subject, but i don't want to venture into that because it's too vague and i'm not too fond of all of that behavioral profiling thing. Well, the problem is that i dislike VCU a lot and i would hate to have to deal with their amazingly inefficient and unfriendly admissions office. Besides, if i want to apply as an international student again, this will require showing them that i have a sponsor (dad) with $27,000 in cash in his checking account. Dad has managed to gather that sum of money somehow when i was applying there as an undergrad, but i know that he had to make figure eights in the air and borrow money and what not to do that and i would hate to have to put him through that again, even though i know he would do it, because he wants me to get a masters. Besides that, i will have to pay out of state tuition again (after living in VA for almost five years!!!). Another option is to wait until i get the bloody greencard and then apply. Liliya has been giving me advice to try and get a work-study assistanship, where i would teach classes or do some other kind of work in exchange for free tuition. But this seems rather impossible for me because i cannot possibly imagine myself teaching anything to anybody. I would work in a lab, if they let me, or do something administrative, but with my luck and lack of ability to nose myself into things and to push things around efficiently - i probably won't be able to get such an arrangement. I might try...
Gah, everything is so fucking complicated. Sometimes the idea of getting a degree online appeals to me. Maybe i should just wait until i get the greencard, and then things will become much easier. However, if i get kicked out of INDOOR due to the work authorization expiration, i wouldn't want to just sit at home and waste time waiting for the idiots in the Visa center to move their asses. Or at least that's my mood for the moment. Tomorrow i might find the possibility of doing nothing very alluring. I don't know just what i want to do. But i have reached a conclusion that i'm probably not going to have a career as a medical examiner or an advanced scientist, because i'm just too dumb and i have reached the top of my scientific ability and understanding.
This is all i had to say.
P.S. Turns out it's inefficient and not unefficient. Good to know.
Yesterday a reporter came from the business section from the Charlottesville Daily Progress newspaper and took a bunch of pictures of me holding a gel. The day before he interviewed Martin and our company will be featured there some time soon. I'm going to be in a paper!!..
I have been throwing around an idea of getting a masters degree in criminal justice. Ironically, VCU seems to be the only school that offers a program that interests me. I found some other program in some private school in Arlington, but that was in Forensic Psychology which is an interesting subject, but i don't want to venture into that because it's too vague and i'm not too fond of all of that behavioral profiling thing. Well, the problem is that i dislike VCU a lot and i would hate to have to deal with their amazingly inefficient and unfriendly admissions office. Besides, if i want to apply as an international student again, this will require showing them that i have a sponsor (dad) with $27,000 in cash in his checking account. Dad has managed to gather that sum of money somehow when i was applying there as an undergrad, but i know that he had to make figure eights in the air and borrow money and what not to do that and i would hate to have to put him through that again, even though i know he would do it, because he wants me to get a masters. Besides that, i will have to pay out of state tuition again (after living in VA for almost five years!!!). Another option is to wait until i get the bloody greencard and then apply. Liliya has been giving me advice to try and get a work-study assistanship, where i would teach classes or do some other kind of work in exchange for free tuition. But this seems rather impossible for me because i cannot possibly imagine myself teaching anything to anybody. I would work in a lab, if they let me, or do something administrative, but with my luck and lack of ability to nose myself into things and to push things around efficiently - i probably won't be able to get such an arrangement. I might try...
Gah, everything is so fucking complicated. Sometimes the idea of getting a degree online appeals to me. Maybe i should just wait until i get the greencard, and then things will become much easier. However, if i get kicked out of INDOOR due to the work authorization expiration, i wouldn't want to just sit at home and waste time waiting for the idiots in the Visa center to move their asses. Or at least that's my mood for the moment. Tomorrow i might find the possibility of doing nothing very alluring. I don't know just what i want to do. But i have reached a conclusion that i'm probably not going to have a career as a medical examiner or an advanced scientist, because i'm just too dumb and i have reached the top of my scientific ability and understanding.
This is all i had to say.
P.S. Turns out it's inefficient and not unefficient. Good to know.