Got my passport today. Man, I'm really hoping that that is a bad picture in there and I don't really look like that. I guess going to Korea is that much closer. Crapple.

Half day at work today...
Fuck! but I'm gonna enjoy this.

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Got my passport today. Man, I'm really hoping that that is a bad picture in there and I don't really look like that.

how long is it valid for? our adult passports last ten years. but we get to provide our own photo (a JP witnesses it on the back) so at least you can keep going till you get a good one. i took my girl's pic on her passport, it's only valid for five years.

my partner went on a field trip to NZ with a group of his fellow indigenous studies students. one guy had a papua new guinean passport (he's half PNGn half torres strait islander) which you get for life. he had a baby pic as his passport photo and his height was listed as 33 inches. he's a mini man but i don't think even as a tiny baby he'd have been that small.


but my day - i realised i hadn't bought my girl her own sneakers for ages. we get so many hand me downs all the time that we usually don't have to bother.

they have a swoosh. well they were by far the best (and cheapest) option of the three brands that suited her foot shape. she loves them and had to do a lot of running round the shopping centre.

Henry Rollins answered my question at the AV Club

My question is second to last. My name on there is listed as Vinegar E. He disagreed with me.

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Got my passport today. Man, I'm really hoping that that is a bad picture in there and I don't really look like that.

how long is it valid for? our adult passports last ten years. but we get to provide our own photo

ROFL I'd love to have a passport like that. that is hilarious. I think ours are for 10 years as well. I don't really travel well, so if it were not for work and having to go, I would rather not bother getting one. I like the idea of travel, but actually doing it gives me the heebie jeebies.

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Originally posted by shake:
I don't really travel well, so if it were not for work and having to go, I would rather not bother getting one. I like the idea of travel, but actually doing it gives me the heebie jeebies.

i'm a bit like that, but i find the more i do it the easier it becomes. certainly going places i already know helps to some degree. though i've come to the conclusion that if i don't make that effort then i'll regret it.

i'd love to go to korea, i envy you. though i know how i'd feel in the same situation. how long you going for? you should talk to meru and get some tips.

I'm going for about a month. It is a trip for work where I have to teach about 200 hours on a topic I really know little about. I'm not much of a talker even under the best of conditions so this aspect adds some extra oomph to my anxiety. My hope is that by the 3rd day I won't give a rat's ass about it.

at least with a month you can convince yourself its survivable, after all what is a month in the scheme of things? and again, yeah, talking - yikes!

in the next couple of weeks i am going out to site. i will have no access to a computer. so i'll need to do a lot more by phone. be a lot more involved with people. i hate the phone and i hate people. but its life, i have to do it, especially if i don't want to stay in this same rut i am in now.

LOL, you sound alot like me. I have had a cell phone for 3 years now. My total talk time is about 43 mins. Similar to travel, I like the idea of a cell phone, but I don't like to use it. But I guess it boils down to disliking talking on the phone in general.

oh i text on my cell all the time. same as i email all the time. that form of not talking to people is fine
though saying that i was just talking to aisha, but she called me. she is like that :P

I was on my second route when I notice the next house had the gardge door open- I figured whomever was leaveing would like to have their paper early- So, I walked up in my normal style and asked if he wanted his paper as calm as I could-

In response this man in a suit gave a yelp and began flailing a bit with his breifcase in hand-

"Where did you come from?" He asked.
I pointed behind me.
"I am yur paper ninja."
He took the paper, said thank you, while giving me an odd look-
I turn trying to hold back my laughter at the replay in my mind of him flapping his arms- I did a horrible job of that-

It occurs to me if I didn't avoid human interaction that I would have wonderful bonding experiaces like this- But, I bet he is rethinking that whole no streetlight policy his entire neighborhood has-

You need a bell on you, is what it is.

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Originally posted by Noirjyre:
"I am yur paper ninja."

I wear my keys around my neck- dose that count?

Not your silent ninja keys, apparently...

Perhaps they would be less startled if I spoke to thru the mircle of a bullhorn.....

You need smoke bombs too. For when you make your exit.

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Originally posted by Noirjyre:
I was on my second route when I notice the next house had the gardge door open- I figured whomever was leaveing would like to have their paper early- So, I walked up in my normal style and asked if he wanted his paper as calm as I could-

In response this man in a suit gave a yelp and began flailing a bit with his breifcase in hand-

"Where did you come from?" He asked.
I pointed behind me.
"I am yur paper ninja."
He took the paper, said thank you, while giving me an odd look-
I turn trying to hold back my laughter at the replay in my mind of him flapping his arms- I did a horrible job of that-

It occurs to me if I didn't avoid human interaction that I would have wonderful bonding experiaces like this- But, I bet he is rethinking that whole no streetlight policy his entire neighborhood has-

Reminds me of a game I like to play with the attorneys I assist. I call it: "How far into your office can I get before you notice me."

If I get all the way to their desk without them taking notice,
I get to cough.

Most of the time, if someone's in that deep of a concentration mode, they'll jump like they've been therapeutically electro-shocked.

It is good fun, and most of the time they make a point of saying "hi" when I walk into their offices...

..but every once in a while, I get to play spook.

*chuckle*
At a custodial company I was manager of a campus where we had a few buildings- I hired my friends mostly cause they knew i would hurt them if the screwed up- And I knew they wouldn't whine if I did- I used to walk around the dead silent and empty buildings with a massive load of keys around my neck- And they seemed loud as hell to me- But, I would always surprize my workers- Who began calling the way I appeared serial killer-

"Goddamnit, stop being serial killer."

I thought I was loud tho- But, I got laugh how jumpy it made them- I loved that job-


P.S. The connection at the coffee shop was crappy- So on rehash I'm glad yur feeling better Colin-

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Originally posted by Noirjyre:
Perhaps they would be less startled if I spoke to thru the mircle of a bullhorn.....

Yes, I'm sure that would help.