got a call from the embassy today. my VISA's all ready and done, but because the embassy website has wrong / missing info when it comes to bringing your spouse along with when you're a student, we have to get a bunch of different / new stuff for my wife. told them to fix their site and they said they won't. and the guy sounded really cranky on the phone even before i had talked to him.

apparently i'm the first exchange student EVER who's been married + bringing their spouse along with, to this specific school that i'm going to. so i bet they're going to be pretty curious about my wife... when i was in iceland i was "famous" for being the youngest person in the uni (since i graduated high school a year early & stuff), not that it gave me any perks or got me any special friends or anything.

bank PIN code still hasn't come. tomorrow's friday; if it doesn't come in the mail i'm calling them to ask them when it's coming. plane ticket prices are rising by the day and that's reaaaally bad. my wife says i should've called the bank to ask when the PIN's coming like 2 days ago but they always seem to send the PIN a few days apart from sending the card-readers so i think this is probably just normal; and it's a huge fucking pain to call the bank so i really don't want to (waiting 40+ minutes each time, having to dial in my social security number each time and if you mess up even once you're sent back to the queue, explaining my problem 4 different times because no one LISTENS to what i'm actually saying. "my card is locked, i have no working PIN code" "okay well, please put in your PIN code!" "it says my card is locked" "oh is that so?? you went and locked your card eh??")