Today, I finally got my passport back from the visa office (only took a month and a half), so it was time to pay a visit to the friendly neighborhood tax bureau to drop off my tax forms. The company has a service for this, but it was a week and a half ago and it was from 1:30pm to 4:30pm, not bad, accept except that's my prime sleeping hours ... and I didn't have my passport. So, this morning, I come home from work, have a quick snack, then head towards the address posted in the notification email around 7:30am. There was one, tiny little problem, the office was closed ... and it had moved 11 kilometers across town, roughly 5 kilometers closer to my home than the place I was originally sent to. Needless to say, I'm not a happy camper at this point, but the door guard is nice about my complete idiocy when it comes to the Chinese language and writes the address down for me and tells me how to get there. So, I get to the place the guard at the first place tells me to go, and it's the wrong building ... I think steams coming out of my ears at this point. Fortunately, the guard was only 1 building off, he said HeYi Building when he should have said the building just East of the HeYi building (cause it doesn't have a name on it). Taxes are paid, then I for a bus home. The bus that goes right by my community, doesn't stop at the bus stop marked for it to stop, so I have to take an alternate that's going to drop me about 1 kilometer away from my home. No big whoop, 1 kilometer isn't too much ... but then I get spaced out on the bus and start reading some stuff on the internet on my phone, and miss my stop. Long story short, I'm tired and in a "wonderful" mood. Oh, this story would have been so much better if I told you I left so early because I had some work that I needed to get done before I went to bed ... and I now I have exactly 9.5 hours before I have to BE back at work. (Incidentally, I could have used the 10 minutes it took me to type this out doing my work, but my works going to take at least 2, uninterrupted hours to finish, so it's going to have to wait until tomorrow.)
Guard's handwritten instructions
Roughly, it says bus 202 to qī xián lǐng， cross the street, and you're at hé yì building (or something like that).
