Bored and unmotivated at work today, I decided to make good use of my time stuck at my desk. Thus far completely confused about my visa situation, I did some more poking around on the UK Border Agency website, and found a points calculator for the Highly Skilled Worker category.

Sure enough – if I’m understanding it correctly – I seem to have ample points to apply to show up in the UK and look for work, either for a UK organization or as self-employment! (And I am assuming the latter means I can do contract work for my current employer; I’m sure they’d be happy for me to bring money into their economy and pay taxes on it, right?)

So much better than one alternative, which is to broach the topic of getting engaged to one particular UK resident in order to get me in the door… eek! and frankly I don’t think he’d go for that either. I mean, it could happen, but when it does, it’ll be for the right reasons.