visa appointments

OK, we've gotten most of the paperwork done for our marriage visas. Of course, nothing with the Home Office goes smoothly. The passport photo specifications on the British Consulate website are different from the specifications on the printed visa application (since the latter are smaller, we're sending the larger, on the assumption that they can cut it down if needed). The online application says that you need to schedule a visa application appointment, which seemed odd, since (a) they have stopped accepting in-person visa applications and (b) we had already paid by that point for postal application. But, when we actually made the appointment, it became clear that this was just for the biometric scans that are now required for UK visas, and that we would then *post* our applications afterwards. We get scanned on Saturday and can then send the papers of (I HATE things that require you to mail them your passport...) Then it's on to the marriage license...

It's snowing here, but it looks to be about to tail off after giving us maybe 1/4"...

probably not of as much interest...

( essay for my class on Middle East Cultures )

well, I was apparently wrong about the snow

Not only did it not tail off, it got harder. We're expected to have a couple of inches today, and boy was it obvious on the roads...