It begins...

The Columbia Screw.

The latest: I have to contact Student Affairs to get an extension on my leave of absence in order to return in the Fall because I should be going back in the Summer.

For a second, I thought about having to contact the FAFSA people about my loans, and getting covered for Summer, and the housing people about moving my date up three months, and I saw this whole cluster-fuck happening.

I'm going to make some calls tomorrow morning to New York to see if there's anything else I need to do--I can't show up three months shy of my fifty weeks, but I have some official crap I have to do in order to get the "extended" leave in order to complete those fifty weeks.

Red tape, rock, hard place. It's the Columbia way, it seems.
For a moment there, the happy thought was the sudden resignation I was going to have to tender, sooner than expected.

I'm so ready to end this ICU experience, Stat!