ToDo: Passport renewal
Nov. 7th, 2024 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soniaI spent a chunk of time this evening putting together my passport renewal application (renewal how-to), and I'll go get a photo and mail it out tomorrow. Oddly enough, my current passport was issued Dec 4, 2016. The fee has gone up to $130.
I haven't used the passport since I renewed it 8 years ago. The photo looks charmingly young, and isn't half-bad. I debated about what to put for hair color on the renewal form. I have a decent frosting of gray on top, and the braid is still mostly brown with threads of silver. I put gray, since it's the way to bet in the long run.
Such a weird sense of deja vu. I keep thinking about survivorship bias, and Tamnonlinear (recent post fromjulian), who died by suicide in 2016. I was so viscerally panicked in 2016. This time I'm more resigned. At the moment, anyway.
When I think back to the beginning of the pandemic, I remember how terrified I was. Now I'm realizing, it was the terror of the unknown, PLUS the accumulated anxiety of the previous four years. At least I'm starting out this time with a nervous system that's more settled?
I haven't used the passport since I renewed it 8 years ago. The photo looks charmingly young, and isn't half-bad. I debated about what to put for hair color on the renewal form. I have a decent frosting of gray on top, and the braid is still mostly brown with threads of silver. I put gray, since it's the way to bet in the long run.
Such a weird sense of deja vu. I keep thinking about survivorship bias, and Tamnonlinear (recent post from
julian), who died by suicide in 2016. I was so viscerally panicked in 2016. This time I'm more resigned. At the moment, anyway.When I think back to the beginning of the pandemic, I remember how terrified I was. Now I'm realizing, it was the terror of the unknown, PLUS the accumulated anxiety of the previous four years. At least I'm starting out this time with a nervous system that's more settled?
