I’ve been trying to get my passport for over a year. The first time there was a problem because my step dad took it all in and so he had a photocopy of my driver’s license, but only the front of it. The second time they didn’t like my birth certificate because it apparently looks like the second "E" in my last name is an "F".

So I ordered a new birth certificate. By the time it came my pictures and signed forms had expired. I went all the way back to Ontario, got the reverend to resign everything, including worse pictures, and thought all would run smoothly.

I go to the passport office today, wait in line for approximately 80 hours  get to the booth and they tell me the address on my driver’s license has to match the address that I’m living at. $%&*.  So I still don’t have my passport. And I’m not even sure that I can get an Ontario driver’s license with a British Columbia address on it. So I may have to just got a BC driver’s license within the next week. I’m assuming the first step to that is the same as the Ontario one, so it’s really no biggy to go in and take a 15 minute test that only people like Allen fail. (Allen failed 3 times.)

Anyway, music.

1. Elliot Smith - Happiness
2. Mates of States - Abercrombie
3. Wolf Parade - Dinner Bells
4. Buck 65 - Follow Me
5. Kinks - Tired of Waiting for you
6. Sweatshop Union - Nothing Makes Sense
7. Wilco - I’m trying to break your heart
8. Common Testify
9. The Early November - 1000 Times A Day
10. Talking Heads - Life During War Time

And links…. which will be numbered like the music to speed things up

1. An article that actually explains the 2 week earthquake window that Vancouver Island is facing. All the other articles sort of just said "Yeah, it might happen" but never had graphs or anything.
2. The recent earthquake in Asian resulted in a 10% decrease in spam and a 3% decrease in viruses.
3. Sorry, just one more geography-ish one. Antarctic snow is showing more and more links between ancient eruptions and the changing climate. Its a really super interesting article… if you like volcanoes and climate change.
4. Everyone should go read the interview that treehugger did with one of my co-bloggers at eco-chick. Summer is incredibly intelligent and answers questions very eloquently. Not to mention she’s a completely gorgeous girl devoting her talent to modeling for eco-friendly mags. and getting the eco-word to the public. Now she should be nominated for a nobel prize!
5. I already mentioned the Edwards is keeping AmandaPanda! Wee. Also, Gordo has an aces post up about supporting Edwards and AmandaPanda. I’ll attempt to support AmandaPanda more despite my dislike of reading about politics right now. The comment threads really are super interesting.
6. Did you hear the Anna Nichole Smith is dead? …Did you care? I didn’t think so. I was talking to a girl at work yesterday who seemed to care very much. There were tears. It was weird, Dreadful’s got a good post up about it, and how Anna’s last minutes were sold for half a million. Gross.
7. Every time a debate about weight comes up - someone mentions BMI. And it drives me crazy. At Bitch PhD she writes a bit about this topic in her heroin of the week post, and why we’re all paying too much attention to the wrong Paris. It’s funny when you go to the gym and you see these girls with bodies that some people would kill for - but then you see them get onto a machine and they have to get off of it and sit down after being on it for only 5 minutes.
8. I want a dirt floor! (Mother. No comments.)
9. I found this next bit via Grist - and I’m curious… is it a joke? After looking close. No, it’s not a joke. Weird. Can you ever create a fair world without screwing the earth over?
10. Gore won’t run for pres. GOOD. That is all. Hopefully he doesn’t win a Nobel Prize either.