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remindmeofthe) wrote2005-06-07 07:54 pm
remindmeofthe) wrote2005-06-07 07:54 pm
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Hey, look, everybody! It's a post about things that happened in my actual life rather than in a baseball stadium! AMAZING.
Damn, it's a good thing I had to cancel my debit card today. Otherwise, I'd have spent the past few hours justifying buying a permanent account with a hundred and fifty bucks that I need to hang on to. ("I get coffee free at work anyway . . . and I don't need real food, everyone has to go through the Month O' Ramen sooner or later . . .")
Yeah, so as I mentioned before, I lost my ID case with all my stuff in it last Thursday. I got my birth certificate and adoption papers from my mom (she remarried when I was three and he adopted me, so my legal name is different from the one on the birth certificate) on Sunday, and then had the joy of the BMV yesterday to apply for a new photo ID. I, unlike most of the people in there, was smart enough to bring a book, and good thing too because it was busy. Man, I thought three PM on a Monday would be quieter. HA. So I got plenty of reading done and not too much squirming with impatience, although I did bond briefly with the woman next to me over people who think they are too special to wait. =D
Then today, after picking up a few extra hours at work (yay), I went out to the bank to get my address changed, cancel my card (which I had just had a block on before, in case I found it), and order a new one. Since I have my Social Security Number memorized, I had absolutely no trouble doing this. Which on one hand is nice, because I need a debit card to pay my bills and my photo ID won't arrive for at least a couple weeks, but on the other hand - I lost my Social Security card too. It disturbs me that someone can just come in, spew the right nine digits, and seriously fuck up my account. I'll have to see if I can get a note put on my account to require photo ID, because the convenience factor is overshadowed bigtime by the creepy factor.
Things I still need - a new library card (and there goes my lifetime streak of somehow never ever losing any of my library cards, dammit; I lose things all the time, so I was pretty proud of that), and a new Social Security card. The Social Security website is both specific and vague as to what qualifies as proof of identity, so I think I'll just wait for my photo ID. The library, I have no damn idea. All I needed to open the account was two pieces of mail with name and address, so I see no reason why it should be any more difficult to replace my card. So you know it will end up being ridiculous.
In conclusion, I would like to demonstrate how very pale I am thusly: I waited for like half an hour in the sun for a bus (and my precious Aeros, a delightful candy bar which I had heretofore found only in Canada, melted into little bags of liquid chocolate *snf*) and I am now burned. My melanin loses at life.
Damn, it's a good thing I had to cancel my debit card today. Otherwise, I'd have spent the past few hours justifying buying a permanent account with a hundred and fifty bucks that I need to hang on to. ("I get coffee free at work anyway . . . and I don't need real food, everyone has to go through the Month O' Ramen sooner or later . . .")
Yeah, so as I mentioned before, I lost my ID case with all my stuff in it last Thursday. I got my birth certificate and adoption papers from my mom (she remarried when I was three and he adopted me, so my legal name is different from the one on the birth certificate) on Sunday, and then had the joy of the BMV yesterday to apply for a new photo ID. I, unlike most of the people in there, was smart enough to bring a book, and good thing too because it was busy. Man, I thought three PM on a Monday would be quieter. HA. So I got plenty of reading done and not too much squirming with impatience, although I did bond briefly with the woman next to me over people who think they are too special to wait. =D
Then today, after picking up a few extra hours at work (yay), I went out to the bank to get my address changed, cancel my card (which I had just had a block on before, in case I found it), and order a new one. Since I have my Social Security Number memorized, I had absolutely no trouble doing this. Which on one hand is nice, because I need a debit card to pay my bills and my photo ID won't arrive for at least a couple weeks, but on the other hand - I lost my Social Security card too. It disturbs me that someone can just come in, spew the right nine digits, and seriously fuck up my account. I'll have to see if I can get a note put on my account to require photo ID, because the convenience factor is overshadowed bigtime by the creepy factor.
Things I still need - a new library card (and there goes my lifetime streak of somehow never ever losing any of my library cards, dammit; I lose things all the time, so I was pretty proud of that), and a new Social Security card. The Social Security website is both specific and vague as to what qualifies as proof of identity, so I think I'll just wait for my photo ID. The library, I have no damn idea. All I needed to open the account was two pieces of mail with name and address, so I see no reason why it should be any more difficult to replace my card. So you know it will end up being ridiculous.
In conclusion, I would like to demonstrate how very pale I am thusly: I waited for like half an hour in the sun for a bus (and my precious Aeros, a delightful candy bar which I had heretofore found only in Canada, melted into little bags of liquid chocolate *snf*) and I am now burned. My melanin loses at life.