The City: Long Story Short

I have not gone into detail about the horrors of my house, and I'm not really going to do it now.
Let me just sum up:

Aaron and I bought a house in 2002 that was a mess. But... It had a two-family layout (plumbing, floor plan, electrical boxes, heating zones, etc) and we thought it would be a good income property. With the money in equity, no problem, we'll fix it up!

Weeeeelll. Not exactly. We have been trying to do this 2-family thing for the last 2+ years. We have had varying degrees of luck and help along the way. But we are really toeing the end of the line, here. Our last appeal is to the Zoning Board. We were scheduled for that meeting on Thursday night.

So after two years of waiting, endless research and money dumped into our house, nerves all a twitter... Two of their members just didn't show and we have to wait until next month. This made me feel very small and insignificant on the one hand, like we weren't worth their time, and on the other hand, it made me raging beastly mad. How dare they?!?

So I'm crabby at the beauraucracy. Will it ever end?