Life in a waiting state

Whenever my friends asked me what I was upto, I always started it by saying "I am waiting for blah blah blah". I just got vexed by the waiting and thought would put it all in my post.

Waiting for an admit: This was a long wait. Since universities I had applied to were many, the waiting period had to be long.The university that you long to join always sends you its decision last. And hence you cannot take a decision before you hear from them.

Waiting for I20: Although I got an admit pretty early, the delivery of the I-20 got delayed to the limits. I got it at a time when half of my friends' visa interviews were done with & they were in the shopping state and this made me more impatient. After getting the I-20 from the university, it was finally my time to apply for the visa interview . I was happy to see the dates I would personally prefer for the V day in the open state at night. But I couldn't take them, since the visa forms had to be submitted before taking a date. I managed to finish the forms at night, so that I can take the date the very next day early morning.Little did I know that, like me, many people are active at night. By morning, all the dates were already booked. Then the waiting started. I have lost the count of the number of times I selected the values in the dropdown on the vfs site to see the dates available for me and the number of times I saw the message box popup with "No dates available. Check after 24 hrs" message. There started my second wait.

Waiting for dates: Finally after a week, the dates were opened again exactly at a time when I had lost all enthusiasm & was sleeping out of frustration. I always sleep at wrong times. Fortunately this time, after I woke up, the dates were still open & I immediately took 15th July. Stage 2 was over and what a relief it was! Now it was time to get all my documents ready for the visa interview. But waiting was my destiny. So a new crisis had to appear.

Waiting for Loan sanction letter: The bank manager in the bank where I was taking a loan got a transfer and we had to deal with the new manager & explain to him our situation and how we needed a loan sanction letter urgently for the visa interview. But we can't expect them to empathize with us, and they took their own sweet time. Visits to the bank daily & calling them up everyday for reminders became a routine. The day just before the V day, they handed over the loan sanction letter to us which covered half of my I20 amount and thus you can imagine what an important document it was!

Now that I had everything I wanted before the V day, I was waiting for the rains to slow down a little which was pouring like it would finish off its entire stock for the rainy season all on my V day. But it continued to rain with the same vigor and my visa interview did get delayed by almost two hours. But all is well that ends well. Hence I should not complain and stop pouring my wait story.