James did manage to get a weekday off next week, so at last he'll be able to go to the passport office for what will (hopefully) be the final update. That's, if all goes well and they say that they're still on track with his passport and things are looking good.
Unfortunately, however, he closes for 4 days once again - that means another 4 days of not seeing him on skype or talking to him at night. Those nights are tough, and two weeks in a row of 4 closing nights really suck. He complained to his manager last week, and he told me that yesterday he gave his manager hell when they refused to listen to his complaints from last time. It's not fair that he has to close all the time because other people don't want to. Plus they won't let him have a week's vacation this month because they say it's already booked, and yet 3 people go on vacation in a week. That's partly the reason why he's closing so much.
The only consolation is that I get to talk to him in the morning at least, now that I'm not working. It just sucks not seeing him on skype. And what's worse is, on the nights he doesn't close, when skype decides it doesn't want to work for us. That's happened often, and I don't know why. I've gone on skype with other friends and it worked fine with them. But then James has Windows 7 and I have Windows 8 so maybe the upgrades don't work as well, or I don't know. It didn't work well before I got the upgrade either but I figured it was because of my crappy old computer. I just wish I could have Windows 7 on this new computer so that maybe skype would work, but I don't know if that's the problem. Some nights it works fine without any problems. Other nights it just cuts out for no reason and we can't get on for more than 5 seconds. And those nights are frustrating. Especially if it's on a night before he's due to close 3 nights in a row. I've gone almost a week without seeing him on skype, because skype refused to work in between the nights he closed.
I'm just getting a bit anxious again because next week we'll actually know for sure, if things are still going well with his passport. Or if it's all going to be a fail and he has to wait another 6 - 8 weeks or some shit. Plus, if he gets good news next week that it will be ready soon, he'll call his mom and get her to prepare for him to move into her basement apartment.
I'm really hoping for good news. I've given him until the end of September to have his passport in his hand. If that doesn't happen, things might not look good for us. I can't wait around for years and then have nothing happen and my heart be broken because he doesn't show up for some reason. That's one of my bigger fears.
Let's see, I'm worried about a couple things that could go wrong with this passport visit.
1) They could say that it'll take another 6 - 8 weeks due to some complication.
2) They could say they haven't started looking at it or processing it yet.
Of course, the good thing they could say is if it's actually on track and will get to him on the time that they told him it would be ready last time. When he went there almost 3 weeks ago, they told him they'd start looking at it on July 11 and if things go well he'd have it in a month. So, let's pray they are still on track.
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