The mail frustrates me.
I put a fairly important piece of mail in the box on the 15th. I expected it to be there by Monday, Tuesday at the latest. Well, it's Thursday and the insurance lady still hasn't received the envelope, which contains my application and payment for insurance on the car that I am driving up from California starting tomorrow.
this wouldn't be such a big deal, except for the fact that I'm specifically excluded on my mom's insurance and therefore I can't drive if I don't have insurance of my own. (Well, i COULD drive...but it's very unlikely that my mom will let me.)
But the lady says that she should get the envelope today, and if she does she can fax me the paperwork that I'll need to prove that I'm insured. If not, I'm going to go down there on my way to the airport and fill out another application right there.
And after reading about the procedure for titling and registering my car in the state of Washington, I've come to an appreciation of the fact that the state of Washington doesn't want anyone to own a car. To title and register a car here, it has to be emissions tested (and they don't do waivers for cars that have recently passed a CA emissions test, even though the CA standards are far more stringent than ours), it has to be inspected by the state patrol, and THEN you have to go stand in line at the license facility to get it licensed. And the list of possible fees is long and very confusing. In my own perfect world, I could breeze in, show them my CA emissions test results, and walk out with a transferred title and registration.
Bah.
anyway, I'm feeling nervous and jittery about this whole trip, because everything seems to be happening at the last moment. It's my own fault and I know it; I just haven't wanted to even think about it, really. And I forgot my swimsuit. The solution at this point might be for me to take the rest of the day off, but I have high hopes of work coming in this afternoon for me to do, and I need to stop at the server room before I take off.
Yeah, this is one of those days a car would come in real handy. Hey, that's what I'm working towards, right?
Well. looks like my insurance is set (waiting for them to fax it to me right now) and I'm feeling much better about my life. I'll be keeping a notebook as much as I can on this trip, and I have a fresh new roll of film in my camera to take pictures with.
See y'all when I get back.
how goes the war?
On the march!
