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everything starts with a table. The first color is yellow.
(I must be going through a yellow-red period, I guess)
OK, sooo... various updates with a background of a rearranged previous work :
this morning, I went to the "Prefecture de Police de Paris",
next to the Elysée and the "place du marché aux fleurs" to get my driver's license.
Yes, I am 28, I passed the test in 2000 and only today went to retrieve it.
so I arrived at 8:30am, after 4 hours of sleep (how can one sleep in such a heat ?)..
..and waited..
.. and waited...
.. and got out at 11am..
I also scheduled a doctor's appointment for the pre-nuptial certificate (medical exams) on tomorrow morning and will make sure it can be done fast when Nicole lands.
The day after tomorrow, I'll go to the Prefecture at 8am maximum to get an international driver's license.
.. the first clerk was like "4 years! you have to take the test again"....
then the second said it was just like if i had lost the original license,
so I filled the form that is normally made for duplicata demands
and I got my license, yeepee !
By the way,
Nicole arrives next Tuesday !!..
..and we leave on September, 7, so we have to get married before that,
I bought 2 roundtrips tickets via www.hotwire.com, for 572$ per roundtip, quite cheap,
of course, I won't take the 1st fight San-Francisco - Paris since I 'm already here...
.. still following?
I would have preferred to book AirFrance, since I've got miles but they don't seem to do SF-Paris-SF trips, or not at that price
I wonder why roundtrips are often cheaper than one-ways..
For the moment, the only problem Nicole has is to get her birth certificate
by mail,
We found a fast way : www.vitalcheck.com : a private company (!!) : you fill a website form, you pay a fee, you go see a notary that delivers
an acknowledgment, you fax it to the recorder's office of your birth's county
and they send you the certificate in a few days.
Now how will I be able to move all my stuff within a month?
I really don't know
I also contacted more people for jobs
it usually takes 6 weeks
...
and posted my resume on Monster.com, dice.com, matchwork.com and soon craigslits.com, .. and contacted other people, and sent my resume,...
Tasks list : find a job, go to doctor tomorrow morning, go to prefeecture the day after, call the rest of my family, check with United Airlines what they can offer as for large and heavy luggages, go to the embassy on Friday morning to check I'll have a green card without too much a hassle (Nicole not being 21 yet ...), make sure my internet request for birth certificate to the city hall of Toulouse was registered, ...