The long and short of my day...

[vulgarweed]

Bad news/boring bureaucracy rant first: No, apparently I can't get a state ID unless I have a copy of my actual Social Security card (never mind all the pay stubs and tax receipts and bank statements that have it pastede on yay blazoned everywhere for the identity thieves to nip). Who the fuck has their original Social Security card? News flash: My parents didn't save my umbilical cord in formaldehyde either.
Watch me vent!

Of course, I can get one. By mail. In two weeks. Which means I can theoretically get a state ID as soon as that comes in. That's just fine and dandy, except NOT, because I need to send the only photo ID I've owned in a decade, my passport, to the consulate like, NOW. Who knows how long they'll have it? (No, I can't get the state ID without my passport, now can I?) Never mind that having to mail off the passport to get a visa is the only friggin' reason I'd need the bloody state ID in the first place. I'm a citizen of the WORLD, baby. Fuck Illinois.

I'll tell ya, if Big Brother really wants us all carrying around our Number of the Beast cards, he better make 'em less of a hassle to get their hands on.

And now I don't want to hear any bitching about what a hassle registering to vote is (from limp-asses who think that's an excuse), because that was WAY easier.


Oh well. No club shows for me for a couple weeks. Not that I ever use the damn thing for anything else.

Comments

[alchemine.livejournal.com]

Who the fuck has their original Social Security card?

I have mine, but I didn't get one until I was 17 and needed to apply for a job, so it's never been in anyone else's custody.

I can relate to the bureaucratic idiocy, though. My birth was never properly registered (I was born in a military hospital, where you'd think they would have been more concerned about paperwork, but who knows), so when I was starting kindergarten, my parents had to go through all sorts of machinations to get me a legal birth certificate. I still get nervous when someone asks to see it.

Hope everything gets straightened out for you soon!

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the commiseration, and ouch on the birth certificate thing.

I think identity-related bureaucracy taps into some vein of existential angst, really; there's something about negotiating paperwork to prove I exist and that I am who I say I am that can just gut me if something goes wrong (as it so often does).

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Good luck dealing with the bureaucratic nightmare. I feel your pain!

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

Aaargh! Hope everything goes well for you, jaysus what a pain in the butt! ID stuff is such a crapshoot.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Well, I've been fortunate about a lot of things in my life. But it doesn't work well in this realm. :)

[fyrdrakken]

I've got my SS card riding around in my wallet -- have for years. Yeah, I'm fucked if my wallet ever gets stolen, but I can't think of anywhere else to leave it, so... (Why my passport rides around in my backpack-purse pocket -- I needed to carry it at all times while I was in London and after that I couldn't think what to do with it so I just left it in there.)

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Two words:

Bureaucracy sucks.

I'm sorry to hear about the state ID card crap. Do you have chocolate nearby? Sometimes that helps, at least in the short run. ;)