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I mean, if it's not black children being told not to sit on the back of the bus, then it's black people being told they're not welcome in a church anymore.
Or it's a hundred thousand other things that are telling me that maybe, just maybe, it's time to pack a bag. Pity I have obligations here. And no passport. I should really get on that last one, shouldn't I?
Or it's a hundred thousand other things that are telling me that maybe, just maybe, it's time to pack a bag. Pity I have obligations here. And no passport. I should really get on that last one, shouldn't I?
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Date: 2006-08-26 06:47 am (UTC)Basically, I don't have all the points of ID required for a state ID. Now, the rules are only as good as the people who enforce them, so I'm sure there is a way around that if you're good at talking to people, but I'm not. And as I don't even, at the moment, have a birth certificate... yeah.
But I can renew my passport. My really *old*, childhood passport. All I need to do is bring a holder of a valid ID who knows me to verify that I am who I say I am, and my old passport. With that and a little talking (maybe bring two people who know me, and ideally look like me), I should get a new passport easy.
And with my passport, I'll have the required points of ID for my state ID (well, except for the birth certificate, which none of us has bothered checking if it survived Katrina) so I can get that, which is all I really wanted in the first damn place.
Unfortunately, nobody in my family currently holds a valid form of ID. So I have to wait for a Jewish holiday, so both my mom and my sister can get state IDs (my mom wants a proper driver's license), and then I have to wait for *another* Jewish holiday so they can go with me to the post office to get my passport renewed.
None of this stuff, apparently, can be done on the weekend. That would make sense. (I'm sure it can, somewhere, but there's no way any of us is giving up our precious weekend time for this - we've got stuff that needs doing then. Like laundry. And sleep.)