ProcrastinationOutlook is a wonderful tool, but not when it keeps reminding you that it is now 96 weeks since you were supposed to finish a report you haven't even started yet.
Just how lazy are you? How long will you put off the essential or the inevitable? What do you fill the time with?
(We're too lazy to write something funny here. You do it.)
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chthonic, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 18:18)
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I put off applying for permanent residence.When the soon to be ex husband and I got married, I put off applying for LPR status (legal permanent resident, i.e. green card) for 2 years as I didn't want anyone to think that was the only reason I married him.
We applied in July 2006. We had the interview, and the interviewing officer had no problem with our marraige. Just a tiny tiny (fucking huge) issue was that I'd left the country in '05 to go home for grandads funeral. This subject me to a 10 year bar from the US, and what's considered "illegal presence". My saving grace was that I was paroled into the US at a port of entry (i.e., they stamped my passport) which meant I was eligible for a waiver.
Applying for the waiver turned the process from a 3 month straight shoot into a nail biting, nerve wracking 15 month nightmare facing a probable denial and pending deportation.
Mum got the cancerbadness. There was no way in hell I could leave the country as I would be permanently banned from the US and my applications would be denied.
My green card was approved a month to the day after mum passed away earlier this year.
If I hadn't have put off the application for 2 years, I would have been able to see her one last time or at least attended the funeral.
As it was, the last time I saw her was a year ago next week when she came out and surprised me for Thanksgiving.
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Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 21:13,
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Bloody merkin government.Don't they realise who we are. We're British for God's sake. They should be paying us to come and live in their country.
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girlinthehole, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 21:32,
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Oh I am so sorryI know the feeling/pain of having bad things happen while you are not at home, but not being able to get home? god I can't even compute...
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Christ that's harshsorry to hear your tale of woe - and for your loss.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 11:39,
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They do say "procrastination is the thief of time"...........but they also say "many a mickle makes a muckle". So I don't know what to believe!
The U.S do have some weird immigration rules. I swear to goodness that it's engineered to keep foreigners out!
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