California residency: Denied
Today's lovely e-mail came from the Regents of the University of California.  My appeal of my nonresident classification has been denied.

Long story short, I received notification about three months ago that I did not qualify as a California resident due to the following factors:

• Lived outside of the state for more than six months
• Registered a vehicle outside of the state
• Changed my Driver's License to a different state
• Changed my voter registration to a different state
• Paid states taxes to a different state

Subsequently, I would have to pay nonresident fees for my first year at UC Berkeley. 

I sent a nicely-worded, two-page appeal letter to the General Counsel, explaining my situation and the reason for each of the above "criteria" which invalidated my residency.

Apparently it was all for naught, because I still have "nonresident classification for tuition purposes at the University of California, Berkeley campus."

When I read the e-mail, I seriously LOL-ed.  I just laughed out loud in my office.  My life has turned absolutely upside-down in the past month, and it's only fitting that this would happen next.  Don't get me wrong, everything that's happened has been quite ... what's the word... surreal, but at this point, all I'm left with is to laugh at it. 

And hey, at least I can still laugh, right?