So, that was a successful trip, I suppose.

[brooksmoses]

Among other things I was doing today, I was waiting at home for the express-mail package containing my passport to show up. They tried to deliver it Saturday, but I missed them. The note they left was unclear about whether they were going to re-deliver today or whether I should go pick it up. And so, about 4:15, I figured that I should go see if it was at the post office before they closed.

And so I went off, and the helpful fellow at the post office said that it wasn't there, because it was out for delivery, and the delivery people worked at the other office, but that I could pick it up at his office tomorrow.

So, I came back home, and when I got here, there was a postal van out in front of the apartment, and a fellow walking back to it with an express-mail envelope. So I stopped behind him, jumped out, and asked if that envelope was for my apartment number. It was indeed, and he was quite pleased to have someone there to pick it up after all, and I signed for it, and that was that. And then I went and parked the car properly.

And now I have a passport, and can go to Canada next week, as planned. Yay.

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[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

::starts in on the Canadian national anthem::

Which I have piano music for! And have practiced! Although not recently.


Are the new passports not the most excruciatingly patriotic things you've ever seen in your life?

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[suzanne.livejournal.com]

To illustrate how far I am from ever being out of the country, this was the /first/ passport I had ever seen.

Are the new passports not the most excruciatingly patriotic things you've ever seen in your life?

Oh my yes. The little watermarky illustrations of landmarks.... *shudders*

suzanne

[brooksmoses]

I was particularly struck by how the signature page has the preamble to the Constitution above the signature, so that there's sort of this impression that one's signing it.