a miracle happened!

I found a garantour! Yes, Virginia, you CAN go home again. And my garantour is even a Canadian citizen, so the bastards in Thunder Bay have nothing to complain about!

... hopefully.

If this works, I'll be able to get a birth certificate! And a passport! And my replacement Social Security card! God, I'll be able to visit my birthmother when she goes to Chilliwack, and Chris's aunt in Victoria! And still get back in the country!

And this time I am keeping this stupid thing in a fireproof box preferably stored at a neutral location so I never have to go through this crap again. Because Jesus H. Bubbynerrs, this is far too much hassle for one lifetime. It's easier to get a replacement green card (which is NOT my birthright in any way) than to get my own country of birth to send me something acknowledging that I am, in fact, a citizen.

And that's just sad. Reminds me of how I shocked an IRS person once by telling her how Revenue Canada was exponentially more evil than the much-feared-and-maligned-Internal Revenue Service.

AND! It's Friday! And payday! And Emily[0] is watching the boy this afternoon! And I found out how to get my personal statement filled out for SPU without the intervention of a nonexistent minister! And it's the end of a dev cycle in Chris's department at work (a phenomenon known as ZBB, which does not in any way stand for Zaphod anything Beeblebrox) so he might even be able to come home before 9PM again! And we're touring Northwest Center!

Damn. It's a good day.

ergh.

Relentlessly cheerful, despite the fact that Sean has some kind of stomachy ick and I just got six imps, the only one of which I really like was the one I already knew I'd like.

My misfortune is your gain, of course. The following imps are up for swap:

Polyhymnia
Cairo
King of Hearts
Mouse's Long and Sad Tale
Eat Me
The Caterpillar
Dragon's Reverie

Make me an offer. :-)

(I also got a lovely postcard from epi_lj's recent trip to New Zealand. Yay!)

holy crap.

Can't find anything on the news yet, but apparently there's a sniper in downtown Seattle. They're rerouting all the buses from 2nd and 3rd Avenues (not sure about 1st) to 4th and 5th. Heard about it on the bus on the way home - there were about eight police cars, a handful of fire trucks, etc.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee....

(but because I'm lucky like that I suppose, everyone's stuff got mailed before that happened. jeez.)

wow.

Watching Beirut Die.

I love Anthony Bourdain's writing, but this is some of his best stuff yet. Wow.