(this is a backdated journal entry from June 1st)


JUNE 1
I've never been homesick before in my WHOLE LIFE…but I'm homesick now!

This city did a poor job of welcoming me! I was here less than two hours and my wallet and phone were both stolen!!! Nearly everything was GONE!!->credit cards, contacts, car insurance, driver's license…the whole deal! I'm just lucky that I happened to bring other documents just-in-case and I didn't happen to have much cash in my wallet!

Of course I have everyone's info backed up…at home….but here…I'm out of luck. I've got nobody's phone number, not even the guy I'm here to intern with!!!! All I've got is a hand full of numbers memorized and that's it!

If that's not bad enough when I got here I began having a visceral asthmatic/allergic reaction to the smog here! I was having trouble breathing, my eyes were watering my nose was running…REDICULOUS!

The process of trying to get things back in order is kind of going slowly so I'm a little frustrated about that! But at lease mostly my bank/credit people and phone company agreed to send things here to California! Except it seems I'm out of luck for my driver's license!! Which is unfortunate in many ways because that means that I have NO picture ID with me…even my SAIC ID was in my wallet too! OY!!

To make matters worse, in trying to figure out what to do about my driver's license I spent three hours this morning calling the IL Secretary of State, with no luck and then I thought maybe CA state has some procedure for temporary licenses or something but NOPE! The guy at the Los Angeles DMV listened to my situation, gave me a number, made me wait for hours and then when my number was called the women acted like I was crazy and stupid to think that they could do anything for me. She pretty much told me that I was dumb and sent me on my way without any guidance or sympathy!

So…I really don't know what to do about that!

But updates things will hopefully start turning up!