July 22, 2008
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I am eating lemons. I got anna’s laptop. Yesssssssss. She is currently at www.jpusa.org if you wanna see it. In Chicago. So I am eating lemons at Panera Bread while I wait for the internet to work again. It wouldn’t work at all at Starbucks. Does Starbucks have free lemons? our internet at home is zilcho-nado.
Friday I went to the post office again. Ended up crying again. The lady basically said “well, it was your fault, you didn’t write down the number.” Oh what a horrible feeling. In the end, I guess that is one of my greatest fears. Making mistakes I can’t make right. And then spending my whole life paying for them. Wait, this won’t be for my whole life, will it? So I didn’t write down the tracking number. Now what. So it is my fault. Ok. But tell me something else I can do, right?
The lady, Cynthia, says NOT to come to Chicago. She says it won’t do any good. I am going to Chicago. I wrote the Brasilian consulate an e-mail, asking about the tracking number or some help or something…and they said my visa was still being processed. What? So someone is messed up. Maybe I don’t have my visa yet. Maybe they are mailing it tomorrow, and it wasn’t about writing down the stupid number at all.
So…a trip to Chicago to either find a tracking number, find out they are still processing it…or if it really is lost forever. If it is, then I have to file a lost/stolen passport thing, get a new one, and reinstate my visa…a whole process I cannot see taking less than three weeks.
Then bumping into my big fears again…that I will make the wrong choice—not wait long enough and then mess everything up because my visa ends up showing up…or waiting too long and ending up here for quite awhile. Not that here is bad. Nope, every day is good stuff. Especially with this lovely weather. Love it love it.
And my parents are so great about it. But I still feel like a mooch. I feel like I should be getting a job or something. And then I look at pictures of everything in Brasil at www.wrbrazil.blogspot.com and I ache ache ache. And then Jeff and Lindsay are coming back from Brasil this week—because of their visa problems. The visa world needs to be shot.
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Hey, i spent a week with Jpusa a few months back – april or may. Stayed in the “penthouse” They are fantastic people. Also, there’s a fascinating ministry to sex trade workers across the street.