thanks, passport lady. thanks.

So...I wanted to get my passport today. Or at least, to start the process. I successfully took my passport photos (for a whopping $14!) at a small, local post office. Then, I brought my photos and materials to a larger local post office to order the passport. There were two problems.

1. My birth certificate wasn't the original copy. I wasn't surprised because I didn't think I would get away with a scanned/emailed/printed version, but I thought I'd try. So that wasn't too big a problem; I'll just have my parents mail me a copy.

2. Here's the tricky one. In my passport photos, my face was allegedly too yellow. "Yeah, your face is too yellow," passport lady said. "But I just took the photo 5 minutes ago, are you sure it's not ok?" I said as I held the photos up to my hopeful face. "Yeah, those photos give you yellow skin and your face is red. Red like a lobster. You're going to have to get those retaken."

*sigh. This is red lobster face, signing off.