The glowing, searing bureaucracy at the end of the tunnel

This obviously isn't my month. Truck broken into, oppressive mortgage, threatened lawsuit from my former landlord, the lab hasn't reimbursed me for my $800 INMM registration yet (which the credit card people are now on my ass about paying), and I still haven't been converted. I should set up a paypal donation link. Send food.

But maybe there's light at the end of the tunnel? My group leader writes today to say, "...your conversion package is in the director's office for signature. Word has it the next signing session will be Wednesday, 2 May."

Signing session?

The fact that signing forms is an activity that gets scheduled a week in advance is so amazingly... Brazil that I can't even laugh about it.