don't mess....

so i just about 45 minutes on the phone with Bank of America who i clearly told i would be out of the country but who kept calling my dear poor mother warning of suspicious activity (of which there was none)

SO i called them so they'd quit bothering and calling and to make sure they didn't put a hold on anything. And after 15 mins of being bounced around i got INTO IT with some chick who was saying i answered my own damn questions wrong and that i'd have to fax in two forms of i.d. to which i responded "oh HELL no!" and told her that if i called and got someone else that i wouldn't have to deal with anything and that poutain/salope went and said i had suspicious activity on my account TODAY!!! and she was clearly messing with the wrong girl! because i AM who i say i AM i got the email and immediately called the exact same dept. got a different NICER person with whom i answered the questions the exact same way and got through and everything was cleared up! GO FIGURE!!! don't tell me i'm wrong, when i'm RIGHT!!!!

so NEGH! i was VERY nice to the other 3 people i spoke to because we didn't have beef and i have found things normally go better when you're very polite to them...but chick messed with the WRONG girl at the WRONG TIME! but it was quite good because i basically gotta vent all my frustration that inevitably builds up...in a constructive way! (on some YOTCH from B of A, who clearly deserved it for being so intractable) i mean i'm very emotionally healthy now and ready to progress with my language learning without a breakdown (which i very much expected) i actually hope i get to talk to her in another month and a half when i may need to vent again....

the road abroad is bumpy sometimes, because of language, because of the misunderstandings from language, because of the fatigue from the misunderstandings from language, and from the grumps that appear because of the fatigue from the misunderstandings from language....

but i've glided over the first one without crying...maybe gritted-teeth talking...but no crying or yelling. i dare say we're good for the moment.

also the above is a cool thing near my school which is near the tour eiffel