Weasel Of Doom

Russian Consulate called today. They were very nice. They received my paperwork. They noticed that they made a mistake before – a wrong stamp was used, so instead of “marriage certificate” it says “birth certificate” on the consular verification. Upon finding out I was leaving for Russia on the 1st of July, they promised to put the “MATRIMONIAL NAME” into my passport ASAP, and asked me to ship them the originals of the translated apostilled marriage certificate after I get back, so that they can affix the appropriate stamp.

Our phone conversation was very nice and very civil. Why couldn’t it have been like that yesterday? It seems like I should keep my whiny posts “on hold” for a couple of days, because invariably if I post them right away something happens to make me write a “things are better now, disregard the previous rantings” post.