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by Joel Aufrecht
07:06 PM, 27 Jul 2007
I headed to the Singapore Immigration and Checkpoint Authority to get my student visa. It opens at eight, so I was planning to be there around six. My new hostel is close to an MTR station and only five stops away, and I've been waking up around 5 am or earlier, so I was optimistic, but I woke up at 5:30 and was then very slow to get going, including going the wrong way out of the MTR station. So I was about ninetieth in line:
I collected intelligence about the line and headed out, to return another day when I felt better, had food and water, and could get there before six:
Update: Other students told me they went at 8:30, went straight to the appropriate office, and had no wait. Apparently that line isn't for us. D'oh.
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by Joel Aufrecht
10:31 PM, 24 Jul 2007
I'm in Singapore, having enjoyed a day of orientation stuff (speeches, etc), and now working on satisfying a peculiar variant of Maslow's Hierarchy: temporary housing, bank account, mobile phone, plug adapter, etc.
by Joel Aufrecht
08:33 PM, 19 Jul 2007
* and the editorial staff behind her.
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by Joel Aufrecht
10:16 PM, 16 Jul 2007
I was walking the dog in downtown Seattle when a man passing by pumped his raised fist as me and said, "Spoon!" As cool as that was, I was taken aback until I remembered I was wearing my Tick t-shirt .
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Good News
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by Joel Aufrecht
11:43 PM, 12 Jul 2007
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by Joel Aufrecht
05:32 PM, 09 Jul 2007
Gus and I put a new website up, ReadyToImpeach.com. It sells t-shirts that say,
Call your representative's office and tell them, "I vote in district ___ and I want Representative _____ to co-sponsor H.R. 333, Articles of Impeachment Against Vice President Cheney.Each shirt has the district, name, and phone number for about 20 representatives. We've got six and a half states covered so far. Update 13 Jul 2007. The sample shirt I ordered arrived today, so I followed my own advice and called my rep. Jim McDermott's office said he gave a speech on the House floor two weeks ago advocating Cheney's impeachment and co-signed H.R. 333.
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