Oh thank God !!!
Heading off to Mexico and Brazil in a couple of days, and I finally got my passport back. Turns out getting a Brazilian visa is a major pain in the butt - but it doesn't help that I've run out of pages on my passport.
Usually, I'm not concerned about living in a foreign country with no valid piece of identification (I don't drive drunk) - but this time no passport meant no bank account.
Every day that per diem was adding up, and I couldn't get my hands on it. Hopefully now I can spend some actual euros.