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gfrancieThere are projects I need to finish. They aren't too difficult but I have been avoiding them. I just need to sit myself down in the chair tomorrow and really go at them.
I finally sent off my application to get a British passport. This involves more waiting and further interviews. It is always that one extra step with the British government. You send all these documents, and the application, and you pay this significant sum, and then you wait so that they can contact you for the interview. This means I get to drive a significant distance to god damn Plymouth. Always fucking Plymouth. All so a government official can take a good look at me and say, "yes, you are you as all your documents say you are you." (I get to spend all that gas money and a whole day doing this. lucky lucky me.) And then once they feel satisfied by this, they might send me a passport. Then I get to renew my US passport. That will be simple. Send things to the US embassy, they say, "yep, still you after all these years." and then I will be sorted for another ten years.
Oh, and it seems that the person who won the police commissioner election for Devon/Cornwall is being investigated for election fraud. Not for this election, but for the last general election. You see.... it seems the Tories may not have spent money as they should for the election, and this isn't just in Devon and Cornwall, (but in a number of other places) but it is especially bad here. The dear woman who is being investigated had been in charge of another candidate's run, and well it doesn't look good. The Tories had all this time to show their paperwork that the electoral commission asked for (a number of times.) and didn't pony it up until the very very end. The police are involved as well. And if it appears that the Tories were indeed as shady (as all decent people believe and know) about their money, it could make things very unpleasant for them. (you see... I am kinda hoping my MP takes a bit of a kicking. That shifty sonofabitch.) Anyhow... things are amusing in the sticks.
Senor Onion has been invited to some Math Challenge event at the eden project because he is a smarty at math. It seems that primary schools in the southwest send their brightest math kids from years 4-6. And he is one of them. He is kind of excited about this, and he will be with a friend from class. I really hope he enjoys the day.
I got to see my friend C. on Friday. It was so good to chatter at her. It turned out her friend who came with her, had come with her to my wedding a million years ago. So it was fun to catch up with her, and it was pretty wild to see my friend C's Mom and sister as I had not seen them since... before I was married. I think I kinda terrified her Mom when C. and I were growing up, but she was always nice to me (and still is.) but I could kinda sense which parents thought, "This one might rob a bank." And to this day I think there are a few parents of childhood friends who are surprised that I turned out so... normal. We had a really lovely dinner by the canal in Bude. It was gorgeous weather out (England is putting on a good show right now.) and we had a lovely meal. I gave them loads of ideas of where to stop on their road trip (They are driving all over the UK.) and it looks like from FB pictures they are having a great time.
I finally sent off my application to get a British passport. This involves more waiting and further interviews. It is always that one extra step with the British government. You send all these documents, and the application, and you pay this significant sum, and then you wait so that they can contact you for the interview. This means I get to drive a significant distance to god damn Plymouth. Always fucking Plymouth. All so a government official can take a good look at me and say, "yes, you are you as all your documents say you are you." (I get to spend all that gas money and a whole day doing this. lucky lucky me.) And then once they feel satisfied by this, they might send me a passport. Then I get to renew my US passport. That will be simple. Send things to the US embassy, they say, "yep, still you after all these years." and then I will be sorted for another ten years.
Oh, and it seems that the person who won the police commissioner election for Devon/Cornwall is being investigated for election fraud. Not for this election, but for the last general election. You see.... it seems the Tories may not have spent money as they should for the election, and this isn't just in Devon and Cornwall, (but in a number of other places) but it is especially bad here. The dear woman who is being investigated had been in charge of another candidate's run, and well it doesn't look good. The Tories had all this time to show their paperwork that the electoral commission asked for (a number of times.) and didn't pony it up until the very very end. The police are involved as well. And if it appears that the Tories were indeed as shady (as all decent people believe and know) about their money, it could make things very unpleasant for them. (you see... I am kinda hoping my MP takes a bit of a kicking. That shifty sonofabitch.) Anyhow... things are amusing in the sticks.
Senor Onion has been invited to some Math Challenge event at the eden project because he is a smarty at math. It seems that primary schools in the southwest send their brightest math kids from years 4-6. And he is one of them. He is kind of excited about this, and he will be with a friend from class. I really hope he enjoys the day.
I got to see my friend C. on Friday. It was so good to chatter at her. It turned out her friend who came with her, had come with her to my wedding a million years ago. So it was fun to catch up with her, and it was pretty wild to see my friend C's Mom and sister as I had not seen them since... before I was married. I think I kinda terrified her Mom when C. and I were growing up, but she was always nice to me (and still is.) but I could kinda sense which parents thought, "This one might rob a bank." And to this day I think there are a few parents of childhood friends who are surprised that I turned out so... normal. We had a really lovely dinner by the canal in Bude. It was gorgeous weather out (England is putting on a good show right now.) and we had a lovely meal. I gave them loads of ideas of where to stop on their road trip (They are driving all over the UK.) and it looks like from FB pictures they are having a great time.
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Date: 2016-05-16 02:19 am (UTC)My first US passport is only good for 5 years I think - I guess as a newborn citizen they want to check again in 5 years instead of 10? No idea really!
I've been to Plymouth! When we were in uni, my friend did a year abroad and ended up at Plymouth University. I visited her during my February break and we had a grand week! We even managed to take a trip down to St Ives and found ourselves a gorgeous cove and beach and even some sunshine!
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Date: 2016-05-16 05:39 pm (UTC)Plymouth isn't that bad but it isn't that exciting. It is a million and one round-abouts to get through. And there are so many one way roads that if you miss the correct exit you have to take a complicated route to get back to where you need to be.
Plymouth is interesting because you can see how the blitz shaped the city.
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Date: 2016-05-17 06:15 pm (UTC)