Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Ten After Six in the MORNING?

Hell's bells. Just found out I have to leave my house at 6:10 am tomorrow morning. Which means any and all AtP updates/homework/anything will be delayed indefinitely until I get home. Which should be mid-afternoon. I have to go to some kind of embassy/office to get my Dutch passport, or to at least qualify for said passport/citizenship. Blergh. What kind of
bureaucratic office only operates between 9 am and 12:15 pm Monday to Friday except on Wednesdays? Oh, that's right, A GOVERNMENT-FUNDED ONE!!! What I wouldn't give for a cushy job like that. Usually I'm a morning person, but in this case I can make an exception, seeing that I don't count it as being morning unless there is some kind of natural LIGHT visible. I don't know about where you live, but during the winter, (yes even this close to the Artic Circle,) 'mornings' around 6 am tend to be black as the proverbial abyss. Now, if I lived here:
http://www.kkbedbath.com/sunrise.jpg
...seeing the sunrise might not be so bad.
However.
Seeing as it is often grey, cold, and cloudy where I live, and vegetation consists mostly of scrubby evergreens with cones and needles, the likelyhood of me standing on a sandy beach listening to whispering palms and watching the sun rise over the already warm ocean with it's gentle waves is slim to none. Beaches are rocky, windswept, and wave action could kill you in some places. Greenery grows no where near the water's edge, and salt leaching in the soil will kill any hardy plant that dares try and eke out a living along the shoreline.
Simply put:
I wish I was in Hawaii.
And that government would stop putting up so much damn red tape just because I wanna be legally Dutch; thus forcing me to get up an an unGodly hour to traverse a great area to get to their tiny office that's inconveiniently located and who's operating hours are only good for those who have nothing else to do with their mornings.
Can't wait 'till I get to vote in the next provincial election.
Shut UP, Liberals. I'm not French-Canadian, nor of any visible minority, (sadly. I wish I were EI;) and I will most likely end up working hard to make my living in the future. Thus I will not benefit from voting for you, given than you only cater to the whining non-taxpayers. Squeaky wheel may get the grease, but this hard-working, 'normal' wheel is gunna fly right off the axis when you least expect it!