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Friday
I drove around for the first time since coming back. Took Mike to work in the morning and then went to Bell Square so I could walk around (how sad is that? the weather has been pretty awful). I did get a few clothes items while I was at it too, and had a soft pretzel for lunch. Grar. Then I went home via the Fred Meyer out here, where I tried to find socks and instead ended up finding other things I needed like clothes hangers and pajama pants.
I'm having a bit of an "oh crap where is everything?" issue, in that I'm not sure where things from my past are like social security cards and writing samples and other things that may be relevant for getting a new job. But I just had a scary realization -- I need to renew my passport by April 30, see -- but I think I need my passport to prove that I'm a US citizen legal for working here -- but I have no clue when I'd be starting a job -- so I'm not sure whether I should just send in expedited passport renewal ASAP and figure there's no way I'd be starting a job in 2-3 weeks, or wait, or what. I've got a plane ticket back to Japan for March 15, so it feels like I may be pushing it if I wait until around then.
Anyway... I spent the afternoon going through stuff, and then went to MS for our PH meeting.
Afterwards, we went to Ooba's for dinner with A&R and the Fords. Yay for good Mexican food, and, you'll never believe this, but Kevin Babbitt was standing behind us in line there, I hadn't seen him in YEARS. So I invited him to come sit with us. Even weirder, he literally lives around the corner from Mike, out here in the boonies. So we really ought to hang out sometime.
When we came home, we put together some of the Ikea furniture -- Mike put together the DVD bookcase thing he bought, and I put together my bookcase, and then Mike ended up putting the glass doors on my bookcase (but we need to attach it to the wall so it doesn't fall over, oops). So I really need to stop being lazy and start unpacking things and going through my crap...
I'm having a bit of an "oh crap where is everything?" issue, in that I'm not sure where things from my past are like social security cards and writing samples and other things that may be relevant for getting a new job. But I just had a scary realization -- I need to renew my passport by April 30, see -- but I think I need my passport to prove that I'm a US citizen legal for working here -- but I have no clue when I'd be starting a job -- so I'm not sure whether I should just send in expedited passport renewal ASAP and figure there's no way I'd be starting a job in 2-3 weeks, or wait, or what. I've got a plane ticket back to Japan for March 15, so it feels like I may be pushing it if I wait until around then.
Anyway... I spent the afternoon going through stuff, and then went to MS for our PH meeting.
Afterwards, we went to Ooba's for dinner with A&R and the Fords. Yay for good Mexican food, and, you'll never believe this, but Kevin Babbitt was standing behind us in line there, I hadn't seen him in YEARS. So I invited him to come sit with us. Even weirder, he literally lives around the corner from Mike, out here in the boonies. So we really ought to hang out sometime.
When we came home, we put together some of the Ikea furniture -- Mike put together the DVD bookcase thing he bought, and I put together my bookcase, and then Mike ended up putting the glass doors on my bookcase (but we need to attach it to the wall so it doesn't fall over, oops). So I really need to stop being lazy and start unpacking things and going through my crap...
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Even an expired passport would be enough to prove citizenship -- it's enough for the State Department. Or do you have to send the old one in while the new one is being issued?
In any case, good luck with the job search.
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There's a passport office downtown Seattle. If you have proof of travel within two weeks (or something like that), you can make an appointment to go in person and get fast turnaround times.
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