Passport stolen!
July 18, 2009… by bureaucratic inefficiency.
As soon as I got back to the UK, I sent my passport in to the US embassy in London to try and get my visa stamp, hoping to get it back in time to shoot straight back to the west coast. Unfortunately, my optimism for quick and easy processing was once again ill-placed, and I still haven't got my passport back.
The embassy can't give me any information, good or bad, so I don't know how long it will be before I'm able to travel. Although I'm increasingly inured to leisurely paperwork processing by now, this delay has been a particularly frustrating one; I've missed Christoff's whole family visiting San Francisco, Alex's birthday BikeBQ (first non-ironic sighting of the <blink/> tag in a while 
, a mini-festival this weekend to the north of the city, Pat's bachelor party and a bunch of other bits and pieces.
Currently scheduled to get back to San Francisco on July 28th, although I've already had to push my flight back twice – that plan might change!
