When In Rome... Or The UK

You know the saying, right? So right now I'm at Yale, in a fancy shmancy Yale library... so why am I not doing as the Yalies do? Because I don't have finals to study for! Wahoo!! So instead of reading and stressing out like the rest of the nerds I'm sitting next to are doing (read Laura and her buddy Lila), I'm knitting and blogging. Way better than finals any day, if you ask me.

This morning I had to go to the post office to apply for a new passport because I'm a huge irresponsible slob and I lost the one I had that was still valid. I did manage to find my expired/cancelled one from back in the day, but for some reason my valid one has been MIA since the last time I needed it for a big trip out of the country (Mexico doesn't count-- I literally walked across the border with not much more than a nod from the border control guards in June) which was Costa Rica in 2003. Oh well. So now I'm a hundred bucks poorer and am currently not in possession of any valid forms of ID except for my drivers' license since I had to mail the US Department of State my expired passport as well as my birth certificate. It makes me a little nervous knowing that my original birth certificate is floating around the US Postal Service right now, but what can you do?

Oh! I don't think I updated anyone!! I'm going to London at the end of January!! My dad is going on a business trip, and he's extended it by several days and is taking my mom along to make it a pleasure trip, and they offered to take me with them, too. So I scheduled time off with my boss and am now basically just counting down the days. I've never been to the UK and it's been a decade since I've been to Europe (I know, boo hoo for me). I wanted to take Matt along, but it's right after his semester at Berklee will have begun, so I didn't think he'd want to leave just then. I asked him though, just to be sure, but he confirmed my suspicions and sadly refused the offer. That would have been one hell of a Christmas present from me to him, though! Even though I can't take him out of the country just yet, I'm still going to help him apply and pay for him to have a passport. Maybe this summer we'll get to take a trip somewhere. He's actually never gone anywhere, and I would absolutely love to take him everywhere. So, I guess we'll see...