cimorene

I went and got my ID from the police station yesterday! It's hilarious. I guess my string of not-too-undead ID photos had to end sometime?

So that means now I can apply for citizenship! It costs something like 380?€, though, so I intend to wait until after I get the paperwork straightened out for unemployment. I've been sick for two weeks and I can't find my last payslip, and during that time when I was too sick to go pick up a copy of it from my ex-boss, the deadline by which I was supposed to submit it as an attachment to social security passed, so now I probably have to do the whole application over again. This isn't financially a problem for us, it's just an inconvenience, fortunately. I was making more than we needed, but not enough more to be super useful like let's-buy-property-or-a-car! or anything like that.

I'm still sick, though. I had a nasty sinus infection a week ago, but that cleared up, and now I have one of those Lingering Colds where you're about 80% well, but the cough stays, and stays, and stays. So not truly, legitimately sick, but sick enough to also not be well. Especially when you do something and suddenly find out you're way tireder than you should be and your lungs are suddenly trying to turn inside out again.

The postal service has installed a Smartpost package automat in our neighborhood! Joy!! ... But this is a service that they've set up so you can only use it with domestic stores that have signed an agreement with them or something, and allow you to choose "Smartpost" from the shipping options. Like, you can register with the postal service and go in and sign up for a package redirect so that packages sent to you will "automatically" go somewhere, and that somewhere can be a Smartpost automat, but then it only works on Smartpost packages. You can't just have them direct every too-large package for you to one of these for pickup - which would be the ideal solution for many people I assume. There must be a very good reason for this. To do with computer systems or postaage fees or something, I guess. But it's quite frustrating. For a moment, I could almost taste the hope of not having to order only tracked and/or signed packages for the foreseeable future since our postal delivery service is now a garbage fire.