{"id":409,"date":"2009-05-09T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/05\/09\/good-week\/"},"modified":"2009-05-09T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T16:40:00","slug":"good-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/05\/09\/good-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Good week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 7 days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I found out that I passed my citizenship test, and I have a date for my ceremony! I&#8217;ll become a Canadian citizen* on May 29th. This means that I&#8217;ll miss out on voting in the BC election by a couple of weeks, but after 7 years of dealing with various flavours of immigration hassle, I&#8217;m not complaining!<\/li>\n<li>I finally tracked down the cheque I was supposed to get in January, for some overtime I put in on a massive grant that had a budget for such things. Turns out they&#8217;d tried to just cut me a regular cheque, not realising that I was an employee and not a freelancer, and it got stalled when a different office found a match for my name in the employee list, but couldn&#8217;t find my email address. Now they know who I am, they&#8217;re going to add the amount to my next pay-cheque instead.<\/li>\n<li>Another cheque is in the post! It&#8217;s the first of the royalties from a long and difficult freelance highschool textbook writing project that ended in January 2008. I&#8217;ll try to find out how much I&#8217;m allowed to blog about this \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, yeah, I&#8217;m feeling pretty pleased with myself. Neither cheque is very large, but it&#8217;s a great start, and means I get to write off all kinds of interesting things on my next tax return. And becoming Canadian is <span style=\"font-style: italic\">very<\/span> important to me, so that&#8217;s hugely exciting, not to mention a massive relief!<\/p>\n<p>So, seeing as it&#8217;s the weekend, let&#8217;s have some fun!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-weight: bold\">We can haz captions?<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SgW1pYPkSTI\/AAAAAAAAA8c\/ZCD2cfFH3Z4\/s1600-h\/IMG_0531.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 300px;height: 400px\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SgW1pYPkSTI\/AAAAAAAAA8c\/ZCD2cfFH3Z4\/s400\/IMG_0531.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SgW1ps04D9I\/AAAAAAAAA8k\/BTQnsr8DC5c\/s1600-h\/IMG_0533.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 300px;height: 400px\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xjsb8ObOj0k\/SgW1ps04D9I\/AAAAAAAAA8k\/BTQnsr8DC5c\/s400\/IMG_0533.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>*well, dual British-Canadian citizen. Just like Mr E Man! I wouldn&#8217;t have applied for Canadian citizenship if I&#8217;d had to give up my British.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 7 days: I found out that I passed my citizenship test, and I have a date for my ceremony! I&#8217;ll become a Canadian citizen* on May 29th. 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