Dear Brant:
AGHHHHHH!!!!BURACRaCY SUCKS!
We were running a little behind. I arrived at 11:00 to the train station. A time when I was told the embassy would be closed, so the stress led to me running through Bangkok streets like a fool, skewering schoolgirls and business types with the guitar.I arrived at the Abdul Rammah building, where the embassy is, at 11:30...just in time for the friday fire drill. So as I ran up the steps Every person in the 30 floor building was escaping for their hypothetical lives. So I waited for an hour while the trucks showed up and they ushered everybody back in. I have a ten second video of the alarm.The funny part is that the people applying for passports beat the security and staff up the elevator...so we were all standing outside the "hrumph hrumph" very official embassy without a soul in our midst. I suppose I dunno what anyone would do to an embassy without protection, but It didn't look to good.Anyway after getting new pictures, and filling out 5 applications I'm back on my way to freedom.I showed her my Airline ticket that states I have to depart Bali on July 10th. This seemed to bear some weight. She made photocopies and I am to phone back on thursday to check for success.By the time all this was done it was 230 pm...so I wasn't about to get on the move... I'm sacked.So it was off to Khaosan. I'm staying at the Swasdee GH. the place where we actually enjoyed breakfast and the service. I'm in a closet with a mattress. and I will be leaving hopefully tomorrow morning for KO Samet.That's what your missing dawg.How's butterworth.
May I add, I ran into Meghan...you know CANADA 3. I showed her my gold medal, and she showed me her new Gigantic Kiwi Boyfriend. She says Hi. She's going home in twelve days...Breathe...don det.
- posted by Combine Harvester @ 8:25 AM