Luckily, they want me relatively late, so that I’ll be well underway with my next bachelor degree by the time I’m supposed to join them, and thus can get another postponement.
But damn, I was nervous for a few minutes.
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Yeah, gods, those things are horrible. The envelope, the dawning realization who this is from, browsing through the overly technical and scary mumbo-jumbo trying to get the gist of what the hell they’re asking of me and how I can get out of it… always a real kick to the stomach of any day.
14. May 2007 @ 22:38 ( Permalink )
Indeed. This is a kind of excitement I could do quite well without.
15. May 2007 @ 00:11 ( Permalink )
Well, you came through, so go you.
15. May 2007 @ 00:41 ( Permalink )
Yay me, indeed!
And how about you? Getting off the hook?
15. May 2007 @ 01:14 ( Permalink )
Put you can’t fail or whatever it is called, in school now. If you do, you’ll get a fine.
15. May 2007 @ 09:36 ( Permalink )
Well, last I’ve heard from them was one and a half year ago when I got response to my application to postpone my last summoning - which was for September 2006. In this letter, instead of saying “Accepted, new date you’ll show up at is September 2007″ like they did all the previous times, they said “Accepted, for a minimum of a year, you don’t get called back in immediately this time due to restructuring of our system. If you do not hear from us within two years from the previous date you were called in for, you’re off the hook”. Okay, so not completely like that, but that’s what it meant.
Haven’t heard anything since, so *crosses fingers*. Still, I’m not out ’til September 2008 has passed and I still haven’t heard anything. Beautiful timing, though. This was the one summer I’d not be in the middle of a degree and wouldn’t have a good reason for getting a postponement. ^^
15. May 2007 @ 10:41 ( Permalink )
“This was the one summer I’d not be in the middle of a degree and wouldn’t have a good reason for getting a postponement. ^^”
Yay! ^^
My situation’s pretty similar, as I got a postponement lasting from August 2004 to June 2007, and had been in something of a rut if I’d been called for service this autumn. But Lady Fortune smiled at me, thanks heavens.
“Put you can’t fail or whatever it is called, in school now. If you do, you’ll get a fine.”
Umm, what?
15. May 2007 @ 13:46 ( Permalink )
I think he tried to say that they’d fine you if you failed your exams after using them as an excuse not to show up for service.
15. May 2007 @ 15:56 ( Permalink )
Ah, like that.
15. May 2007 @ 16:03 ( Permalink )
Shankyou, Loki.
15. May 2007 @ 23:28 ( Permalink )
You are welcome, child, if not deserving.
16. May 2007 @ 01:03 ( Permalink )