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Oct. 11th, 2010 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogWould it be somehow weird or disrespectful of me to buy this? I'd have to think for a while about how to articulate why, but I kind of want to.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Soviet-UKRAINE-Russia-MEDAL-CHERNOBYL-LIQUIDATOR_W0QQitemZ320600535565QQcategoryZ4724QQcmdZViewItem#ht_2120wt_1143
(Read about the Chernobyl Liquidators here.)
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Turns out that I do not have to appear in person to request a court date as the ticket claims. I would just have to appear at 7:00 PM on the 21st. I was also told that the fine does not rise to the next level until a week after the court date even though the due date on the ticket is the 13th. I'm a little concerned that that will turn out to be misinformation; maybe the fine structure on this kind of ticket is different from what the person on the phone is used to or something. I trust information I receive from a representative of a bureaucracy about as far as I can throw the buildings that said bureaucracy is housed in.
The problem is that the court date is the day of one of my Japanese classes. I really don't want to miss the class, and I am tempted to just mail a payment in today to avoid, for certain, both missing a class and having the fine escalate. Is the avoidance of annoyance and frustration worth the $75 to me? Hmm....
I called the American Anthropological Association, but they are closed on federal holidays. I'll talk to them tomorrow.
On the driver's license front, it looks like I need four things, of which I have three. Of the acceptable options, the easiest ones will be my out of state driver's license, my social security card, a utility bill, and my birth certificate. I was worried about the utility bill; either that or a lease agreement will work, but I don't have a lease agreement (I'm renting a room from a friend of a friend and we didn't write up anything formal) and I'm not paying for any of the utilities there. Then I realized that my internet service is in my name at my current address! And my parents, hopefully, have a copy of my birth certificate. I'll ask them.
Uh-oh. Wait a minute. Now that I think about it, my internet bill has the wrong apartment. 2D (which doesn't exist) instead of 2C. I pointed that out at the time the guy came out to hook it up, but he said that it didn't matter because service was done for the whole building. And it didn't seem like it would be a big deal. But...maybe it is. Ok, I have another entity to call today.
I found instructions on how to calculate my unemployment benefits, so I'm going to look at my pay stubs in my company's online system and figure it out that way rather than wade through the morass of a governmental phone system, so yay for that.
As for the architecture tours, they are full of win and I will be getting a membership in the future. At $55 a year, which includes a ton of free tours, it's a steal!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Soviet-UKRAINE-Russia-MEDAL-CHERNOBYL-LIQUIDATOR_W0QQitemZ320600535565QQcategoryZ4724QQcmdZViewItem#ht_2120wt_1143
(Read about the Chernobyl Liquidators here.)
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Turns out that I do not have to appear in person to request a court date as the ticket claims. I would just have to appear at 7:00 PM on the 21st. I was also told that the fine does not rise to the next level until a week after the court date even though the due date on the ticket is the 13th. I'm a little concerned that that will turn out to be misinformation; maybe the fine structure on this kind of ticket is different from what the person on the phone is used to or something. I trust information I receive from a representative of a bureaucracy about as far as I can throw the buildings that said bureaucracy is housed in.
The problem is that the court date is the day of one of my Japanese classes. I really don't want to miss the class, and I am tempted to just mail a payment in today to avoid, for certain, both missing a class and having the fine escalate. Is the avoidance of annoyance and frustration worth the $75 to me? Hmm....
I called the American Anthropological Association, but they are closed on federal holidays. I'll talk to them tomorrow.
On the driver's license front, it looks like I need four things, of which I have three. Of the acceptable options, the easiest ones will be my out of state driver's license, my social security card, a utility bill, and my birth certificate. I was worried about the utility bill; either that or a lease agreement will work, but I don't have a lease agreement (I'm renting a room from a friend of a friend and we didn't write up anything formal) and I'm not paying for any of the utilities there. Then I realized that my internet service is in my name at my current address! And my parents, hopefully, have a copy of my birth certificate. I'll ask them.
Uh-oh. Wait a minute. Now that I think about it, my internet bill has the wrong apartment. 2D (which doesn't exist) instead of 2C. I pointed that out at the time the guy came out to hook it up, but he said that it didn't matter because service was done for the whole building. And it didn't seem like it would be a big deal. But...maybe it is. Ok, I have another entity to call today.
I found instructions on how to calculate my unemployment benefits, so I'm going to look at my pay stubs in my company's online system and figure it out that way rather than wade through the morass of a governmental phone system, so yay for that.
As for the architecture tours, they are full of win and I will be getting a membership in the future. At $55 a year, which includes a ton of free tours, it's a steal!
