...or maybe not

Okay, I lied.

Due to the lengthy processes involved with putting a stamp on a piece of paper (????), it seems Miss H and I will be delayed further in our venture to Korea. Our FBI background checks still haven't been returned, and further research has told us that an additional FOUR WEEKS will be required to put an Apostille on said background check. In the meantime, the Federal Bureau of Investigation must send us our background checks via snail mail, and then we must send them to the Department of State, wait the requisite month and THEN send all our prepared documents to our recruiter in K-Land. In addition, we are still waiting for our diplomas to be notarized by our respective institutions, and to have Apostilles put on THEM by the Secretaries of State of North Dakota and Illinois.

Jeeeeeeeeeeeez.

The upshot of all this is that we won't make the deadline for the marvelous job we'd been hoping to snag, the one which begins on September 12. At this rate, we won't get over to SoKo until mid-October.

Rats.

There are definite fringe benefits to staying, Miss H has pointed out. More time to go camping, enjoy Disneyland, visit San Diego, and all the other farewell things we were planning to do. We can also have a cocktail party for my birthday and (potentially) Halloween.

But it still annoys me. The only upside is that my friends from England who are going back won't be there any sooner than I will. Their governments are giving them problems as well.

"That's what governments are for, get in a man's way."
                                                                                              — Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly