1. Wondering when on earth I'd get my Thai VISA application letter (only to find out that it had been sitting in the main area of my apartment's building for close to an entire week, without anyone bothering to actually give it to me...grrr!)
2. SPEEDing to just take any picutre of myself to slap onto the VISA application form, which worked out to be quite... an unattractive picture of myself (right after I took a shower, with my hair still wet and weird) on a 10-second timer in my living room at about 2 o'clock in the morning.. Then proceeding to load these STRAIGHT onto my computer to load, crop, make sure they were the right size, then print out not only one, but two copies of the cursed portrait shot...
3. Rushing my way through the VISA application form with my heart pounding - this, now, around 2:30 in the morning. Then, remember my teachers'/mom's wise words of : "Remember to look over your work to correct mistakes!" I freaked out when I realized I had checked a box next to "married," scrambled to get my white-out to correct the preposterous mistake of saying that I was married... only to read it again, later, to find that the box was not only next to "married," but underneath my father's name.... forcing me to pull out my white-out YET again and check the "married" box, to legitimately (effectively... cancel the temporary marital separation of my parents, haha, and instead) patch up my parents' union.
4. Realizing at 3 o'clock in the morning that it was RIDICULOUS of me to even stress myself out at such late hours of the night over this application in the FIRST place, since... I couldn't even send out the application on its way to the Thai Consulate until, at the earliest, 9 o'clock in the morning, anyway...
Why.... must I stress myself out like this?! I don't even do it that often (or, do I?), but when I do, it's always to such an extreme!
Anyhow. The list continues (oh good god, I know.)
5. Waking up at 8:30 in the morning to make sure I was showered and prepared to get to the post office FIRST thing at 9.
6. Arriving at the post office, only to find that only ONE "teller" was working the post office, so I had to grab a number (paper tag?) to be helped...
7. Waiting for close to an hour for my turn to actually arrive!
This ONE old guy was just.. MAN! I dont' know WHAT he was doing, but he had this BOX of (10 or so?) huge envelopes that were covered in post stamps, and he was just buying first-class-postage for all of them to be shipped...
But, the interesting thing was, I guess in order to account for insurance, he had to state what was in the envelopes, which... [okay, this already sounds creepy of me, but, hey! He was talking pretty loudly... or is it a SIGN that I should just be a secret spy?? Ooo~!] ended up being various amounts of CASH!
So... is there some sort of DEAL going on, or.. does this man just have several grandchildren that he gives pretty decent allowances to, and in varying amounts depending on which one he likes the most?!?!
<--- Sorry, my mind likes to make up stories about possible lives of people I see, day-to day. :)
It keeps life interesting, no? Please excuse my tangents....
8. FINALLY buying the postage for the envelope I needed to send to the LA Thai consulate, and for an envelope for the Thai consulate to send back to my home-home .... but not having any tape with me at the moment to actually SEAL the blasted envelopes!
9. RACING to a nearby Walgreens to buy tape, then running back to the closest mailbox to finaaally send my passport+visa app.
10. Calling my parents everyday to see if they had gotten my passport+completed VISA, yet, from the Thai Consulate, but then.... getting a call from my dad saying that my check had not been accepted, that the money for the VISA had to be paid in a money order !
I knew that the VISA couldn't be paid by cash or by personal check, but... how was I supposed to know what a money order was?! The first time I heard about one was through my father at THAT moment... and the whole thing sounded just silly to me, but, whatever~
In the end, my father took care of the financial issue (having family living in the LA area is SUCH a convenience~), and my VISA just arrived... two days ago! (A total of a week and a half at the Consulate)
VISA complete... but, as I will put in my next post, my fears that have been building up for the past few months (concerning the Bangkok protests) have just been escalating...
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