annoyed

2 circumstances:

#1

"it'll be sorted out, somehow..." says everyone... of course it will be sorted out... because i'll have to sort it out myself... except it ain't going to be easy. on the one hand i have detailed instructions as to what i need to bring along to the interview... and on the other, i have certain people dealing with the paper work/admin in the US who think they know how it will all go and think i am making a fuss... i need to show proof that certain fees have been paid, if they were paid on my behalf... they have a copy of the papers i received, why don't they try to read the small-prints and clauses that are on the papers?!

just because others may not be required to fill in forms for their visa-application doesn't mean it will forever be the same with every other case. just because it was like how you know it before doesn't mean that something different cannot possibly happen. if your US consulate says so, can't you just accept the rules and cooperate?!

#2

yesterday morning i woke up to discover that i received a letter from the Sheriff Court and gasped... what did i do?! ... nothing... only that my name has been selected from the electorial board (as commonwealth citizens you are eligible to vote and they put your name into their records anyways) and i have been elected to serve as a potential representative of the jury if need be for the next 2 years and that if i am not in the legal or medical profession etc. i have no reasons to be exempted from this obligation (unless i've gone on the wrong side of humanity etc.).

for a moment i did find myself thinking... cool... i sometimes wonder what really goes on in court... hmm

but then if you turn over the letter, there is a list of who is eligible to be part of the jury... and the first clause states that i must be an ordinary resident (not a resident for educational purposes) for at least 5 years... the rest is about people with the kinds of professions that are exempted and about people with criminal records who will obviously not be eligible...

so i had to waste my time writing to the Court's Clerk to tell him (whoever his wig-headed highness might be) that i am not eligible as a representative of the public jury because i haven't been an ordinary resident during my stay in the UK for all the many years i happen to be here, i won't be around for the next year or so and i should be granted exemption from this apparent 'obligation'.

if they make so much of a fuss with the immigration and it costs so much they ought to get their records right! (their record of who is who and what is what is appalling) ...where's all the money gone to, you wonder?!

posted by ~overacuppa~ on Thursday, 16 June, 2005 at 12:52 hrs