I suppose it all Balances out
So the Katie had a stressful night last night. After getting my dream job working for this amazing health food store with the best two bosses in the world and agreeing to work the following morning, I figure out at 11p that I've been mislead and can not actually get a work visa for the summer. I was so devastated :( I was on the verge of tears. I was so upset with myself for not researching the Visa situation in more detail. I could have saved myself so much time and energy, had I known about the need for a Visa separate from my student visa to work in Canada. Had I only know that my school for 2 reasons is not eligible to grant students work visa for off-campus work, I would have gone to Cincinnati for the summer. I could have already been home and making money.
Then to add to the serious Heartitis, Nathan and I had a perfectly fine conversation, but he just didn't seem that excited to be on the phone with me. I think it is a good time to give him some space. I just got the feeling he wasn't that interested. I'm not sure if I'm sniffing rejection from him or fear from me. Too much rejection in 1 year is just too much and makes a Katie very nervous . . . and apparently makes a Katie talk in third person on livejournal, interesting.
Anywho, so i called the school this morning and they were, as usual, not very helpful or informed. They seemed far less informed than I did about the process for obtaining work Visas and International students- no wonder I didn't have a clue about it till then. Sometimes they are just so frustrating. No one does their job at the school and there is no cross department communication. It is like going to a school where a bunch of poorly trained below-average monkeys runs the whole thing.
I did hear profuse apologizes from student services about the misinformation they gave me, and they booked me an emergance meeting with the Registar to try to help with the problem. The meeting resulted in a letter- that isn't going to do anything- to send with my Work Visa application and an offer to use the $1,000 emergence student fund if I need it to get through the summer. All and all the school wasn't super helpful, but very sweet and supportive.
I had to call my dream job and telling them my pain. Of course they were amazing and reminded me that things happen for a reason and if I get the Visa together for the fall, then they would love to put me on the schedule for the school year.
But the best part of the day was when I got a letter from my dad, which contained a lovely Congrats-on-finishing-2nd-Year card and a $500 check!!!! I was like holy shit! He hasn't given me money since February of 2005. Occasionally, when I'm home he will buy me school supplies if I'm at Staples or Sam's Club with him and once 2 years ago he paid to fix my car. But OMG, a check, a straight up check. Not a loan, but free money to help me through the summer. The letter did say it is between me and him, so that makes me think Lynne doesn't know. I sort of like that piece of it. I was touched by it. Specially, because he said, "I have a little bit of money set aside to donate for things I deem worthy." He was saying I was worthy. That is a very nice reminder of how he feels.
Sometimes I am so lucky.
Looks like I will be a nanny for the summer then.
Then to add to the serious Heartitis, Nathan and I had a perfectly fine conversation, but he just didn't seem that excited to be on the phone with me. I think it is a good time to give him some space. I just got the feeling he wasn't that interested. I'm not sure if I'm sniffing rejection from him or fear from me. Too much rejection in 1 year is just too much and makes a Katie very nervous . . . and apparently makes a Katie talk in third person on livejournal, interesting.
Anywho, so i called the school this morning and they were, as usual, not very helpful or informed. They seemed far less informed than I did about the process for obtaining work Visas and International students- no wonder I didn't have a clue about it till then. Sometimes they are just so frustrating. No one does their job at the school and there is no cross department communication. It is like going to a school where a bunch of poorly trained below-average monkeys runs the whole thing.
I did hear profuse apologizes from student services about the misinformation they gave me, and they booked me an emergance meeting with the Registar to try to help with the problem. The meeting resulted in a letter- that isn't going to do anything- to send with my Work Visa application and an offer to use the $1,000 emergence student fund if I need it to get through the summer. All and all the school wasn't super helpful, but very sweet and supportive.
I had to call my dream job and telling them my pain. Of course they were amazing and reminded me that things happen for a reason and if I get the Visa together for the fall, then they would love to put me on the schedule for the school year.
But the best part of the day was when I got a letter from my dad, which contained a lovely Congrats-on-finishing-2nd-Year card and a $500 check!!!! I was like holy shit! He hasn't given me money since February of 2005. Occasionally, when I'm home he will buy me school supplies if I'm at Staples or Sam's Club with him and once 2 years ago he paid to fix my car. But OMG, a check, a straight up check. Not a loan, but free money to help me through the summer. The letter did say it is between me and him, so that makes me think Lynne doesn't know. I sort of like that piece of it. I was touched by it. Specially, because he said, "I have a little bit of money set aside to donate for things I deem worthy." He was saying I was worthy. That is a very nice reminder of how he feels.
Sometimes I am so lucky.
Looks like I will be a nanny for the summer then.