« Quelle Surprise! | Main | Last Days»
April 7, 2003
My Own Catch-22
One of my favorite books of all time is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. A black comedy and biting satire, it's best known for it's ridiculous characters and cyclical bureaucracy. For example:
- You can only get excused from military service if you're diagnosed as crazy by the doctors.
- The doctors will not examine you unless you request it.
- If you have enough sense to request an examination, clearly you aren't crazy.
Why bring up my literary preferences? Well, today I got in contact with Microsoft and the moving company hired to move me out. Here's the situation:
- Microsoft won't book a flight until I set a move date with the movers.
- The movers won't set a move date until I get my visa.
- I can only get my visa at US customs when I enter the States.
- I can't enter the States until I get my flight booked.
Yossarian had it easy.
So what now? Well, Microsoft is going to contact the movers themselves and straighten this thing out. But that will have to wait until tomorrow because the contact person at the moving company here in Canada couldn't make it into work today due to the season-defying blizzard we're experiencing here.
