Passport

I learned on Friday evening that

1. I had to send in my visa application by Tuesday
2. My passport was missing

Now it's Sunday, and the plan is thus:

• Parents send me my old passport, to arrive no later than Tues morning (as ID to get replacement for lost passport)
• On Monday, I get passport photos taken (two sets) and print & fill out visa forms and passport forms
• Tuesday early afternoon, receive old passport at post office, go to appointment downtown to get new passport
• Tuesday afternoon, mail visa application

Tuesday evening, drink with friends.

I feel a little bad for Lily (The TW visa person); there are some politely calmly panicked emails in her inbox, and one voicemail that all basically say "oh god oh god something went wrong and I don't know what to do. Help!" But now I think stuff is pretty well handled, barring (more) unforeseen fail. I hope she gets back to me on Monday, though. I'd really like some reassurance and guidance to double-check that what I'm doing is the correct thing to do.

Where did my passport go? I don't know. I wish I did. If I could find it, I could save a couple hundred bucks on Tuesday. But I'll have to settle for just not losing my new one. I'm going to keep it in the drawer of papers where it should have been this time, but wasn't.

Impostor syndrome:

The recurring feeling that you don't know what the hell you're doing, regardless of whether or not anyone else knows what they're doing. Brought on in this case by reading blogs written by people while they were attending TWU.

Right now, my flatmate is watching... some show... about cops, I think? In her room. So that's cool, although I can hear it pretty well.

Passport: I lost mine. I spent most of today and yesterday looking for it and trying to figure out where it could have gone. if it were in my apartment, I would have found it. But I'm reasonably sure that it hasn't left my apartment since September. We haven't been burgled or anything, so... where could it have gone? I have no idea.

On Tuesday (the earliest appointment available) I have to go downtown and get a new one (in person, for a painful amount of cash). Then I can send my Indian Visa application, which will be lovely. In fact, there is a faint chance that I can even make the hoped-for deadline that Lily from TW sent me, or at least not miss it by more than a day. Sigh. I'm very upset with myself for misplacing my passport. I don't know how I did it; it was in a safe logical place... and now it's not there. I obviously moved it while cleaning, or used it for some purpose which doesn't come immediately to memory.

I was going to go to RHoK today but instead spent the day looking for my passport (and being somewhat ill from the typhoid vaccine). It snowed somewhat excessively earlier. Biking in snow is difficult; it would help if I had larger tires...

I wish I had gone to RHoK. But at the same time, I know that opportunities for communal freeware opensource coding are not all that difficult to find. And I can always just scout github and request a fork of something. The human interaction is valuable, but it can be worked without.

Right now I'm trying to make a coherent summary of what I think would be good to learn while at TWU. Messy version is at http://notepad.cc/share/SQnRYrimN5 for now.

Oh hey. I should have used http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html#uh-0 sed to deal with euler 13.