Attempt One

Wednesday afternoon I found myself at DVD Stop.  If you are familliar with Game Stop then you get the idea: buy DVD, watch DVD, sell it for a fraction of the origanal cost, buy new DVD.  I was there with my friend Ricky to return my old roomate Hadley's DVDs. 

To say that Hadley had a bit of a DVD addiction would be an understatement.  We arrived with three full moving boxes of DVD's and that was the second batch.  It took the poor guy at the cash register 45 minutes to shuffle through each box and come up with a price.

In the meantime, I called up the Korean Consul to schedule an appointment for my visa interview.  The woman on the other end of the phone was harder to understand whan Steven, my recruiter.  What I managed to get out of the conversation was two things: firstly that the visa was going to cost me money, $45 to be specific; secondly that I needed another transcript!

I had been lucky when my first transcript was rendered useless when it was opened in Korea and I had a spare.  I ordered the spare not for backup, but so I could take a look at my grades.  They thwarted that plan and I sent the spare to Korea for $50.  Now to find out that I need to order a third for my visa application interview, mon dieu! 

So I am delayed again, hopefully for the last time.  Again I ordered two sealed transcripts and they are due Monday, at whch point i will make another attempt to set up a visa appointment.  Now to scrounge up $45.