We are having torrential rains.  There is massive flooding in France and Germany and parts of Italy.  The only thing protecting us a bit is the Alps that seem to be holding some of the weather back.  I'm glad it held off until after graduation.  It is a good thing that's raining actually because I've had to be on the phone all afternoon with the IRS.  AGAIN!  Every frickin' year!  No one knows what the hell is going on in that place.  I was sent from office to office with no one answering my questions.  Excuse me for my lack of sensitivity but one woman was an immigrant with such a heavy accent I could barely understand her, (when I got angry about being sent to yet another office she told me maybe people would help me if I were more polite), the next person was a woman with a bad speech impediment!  I kid you not.  She stuttered so badly I was chewing on my sleeve to stop myself from screaming, "Shut up!!!"  And the worst part is NO ONE was giving me any answers.  The stutterer told me to fill out a form that I know for a fact is the wrong one and didn't know the difference between a citizen and a resident!  WHERE do they FIND these people?  If everything in the States functioned like the IRS we'd be in ruins.  They tell you to use their web site to fill in forms but don't provide the information you need on such web site.  As in it's actually blank.  The line beside Italy's  tax treaty exempt number is BLANK.  But I need it.  They can't give it to me.  I need to go to the web site.  AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRREGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!  I'm going to call my accountant who has just returned from a vacation in Alaska hunting mosquitoes or something.  God give me strength.  xxoo me