YEAH!

14.51 EST: It has left my possession and will be arriving in Washington, D.C. tomorrow at noon. The application (original and five copies of everything except for the first page of my passport One copy, no original) wound up being 175 pages long. I wish that I were living in the day of larger budgets and open minds when scholars did not need to justify their research to government officials and were required to send only the application form and original statements. Oh well, I'm not and I should have been a historian. I shall now return to my regularly scheduled life. -Zh.