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May. 15th, 2025 05:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
logans_girl2001I woke up feeling like I got hit by a truck so I am taking my first sick day in five years.
I forgot to mention yesterday that I got my birth date fixed with social security on Tuesday. On my way there I almost got into an accident. I was coming up on an intersection and the light was green. I was thinking about how expensive the surrounding apartments are and how it's surprising that the road is in really bad shape (lots of pot holes that are badly fixed) and the next thing I knew, there was a car coming at me from the left. When I looked up, the light was RED! I managed to swerve around that car and one from the right but my heart was beating so hard! I never saw the light turn yellow, let alone red!
At the office, I checked in on my phone (I had received a text with a link) and sat down in the lobby. I was disappointed to hear the number X713 being called (my number was X742) but the text telling me my number said that numbers might not be called in order. And they weren't, so that made me feel better.
A guard stepped out from his desk and began speaking, so I put my book down to listen. I have learned that if an employee is speaking to the room at large, you should listen because it just might be important. He was saying that cell calls are prohibited inside federal buildings. He said that several times, in different ways. He even said, 'That means everyone, no exceptions'. I'm guessing he said that last because someone might say they can't go outside because they are disabled or something. He said that last line again, and that's when I noticed he was looked at someone, I mean he was laser locked on this person. So, I followed his line of sight and saw a woman with her phone to her ear. I looked back at him to see him step out from behind the bench he was standing behind and when I looked back at the woman, she was putting her phone down. I just shook my head. I want to say if I was sitting next to her I would have nudged her and said 'he's talking to you' but I have no idea if I would have actually done that or not.
He then said, 'if your ticket number starts with 'X' you need to be in the lobby around the corner'. So, I got up and went to the other lobby.
I started reading my book again and watched 12:10 come and go without my number being called. I had wanted to clock back in for work at 1 so I didn't have to work past 5 but it was obvious that wasn't going to happen (even if I had been called back at my appointment time I would not have gotten home by 1 because it took me forty-five minutes to get there from my apartment).
I got a text at 12:39 that it was my turn. I'm thinking that if you checked in on your phone, you get a text but if you check in at the kiosk in the main lobby or don't respond to the text within a certain amount of time, they page you. I go to the window and hand the lady my ID and birth certificate. She pulls up my file and sees that my birth date was changed in 2001 but there were no notes as to why. I would love to know what happened in 2001 to cause my birth date to be changed. I know I have had to get a replacement card a couple of times since I got married in 1995 but I cannot remember if one of those times was 2001 because I remember going to this specific office in 2017 or 2018 but cannot remember why. You'd think that when I went at that time, they would have noted that the birth date in my file didn't match my ID and change it, but they obviously did not.
But whatever. It's fixed now.
Now, I need to start the process of changing my name back which is going to be its own form of hell. I have used my current last name for thirty years now and there are so many things that will need to be changed. But I am looking forward to not being linked to my ex in any longer.
I forgot to mention yesterday that I got my birth date fixed with social security on Tuesday. On my way there I almost got into an accident. I was coming up on an intersection and the light was green. I was thinking about how expensive the surrounding apartments are and how it's surprising that the road is in really bad shape (lots of pot holes that are badly fixed) and the next thing I knew, there was a car coming at me from the left. When I looked up, the light was RED! I managed to swerve around that car and one from the right but my heart was beating so hard! I never saw the light turn yellow, let alone red!
At the office, I checked in on my phone (I had received a text with a link) and sat down in the lobby. I was disappointed to hear the number X713 being called (my number was X742) but the text telling me my number said that numbers might not be called in order. And they weren't, so that made me feel better.
A guard stepped out from his desk and began speaking, so I put my book down to listen. I have learned that if an employee is speaking to the room at large, you should listen because it just might be important. He was saying that cell calls are prohibited inside federal buildings. He said that several times, in different ways. He even said, 'That means everyone, no exceptions'. I'm guessing he said that last because someone might say they can't go outside because they are disabled or something. He said that last line again, and that's when I noticed he was looked at someone, I mean he was laser locked on this person. So, I followed his line of sight and saw a woman with her phone to her ear. I looked back at him to see him step out from behind the bench he was standing behind and when I looked back at the woman, she was putting her phone down. I just shook my head. I want to say if I was sitting next to her I would have nudged her and said 'he's talking to you' but I have no idea if I would have actually done that or not.
He then said, 'if your ticket number starts with 'X' you need to be in the lobby around the corner'. So, I got up and went to the other lobby.
I started reading my book again and watched 12:10 come and go without my number being called. I had wanted to clock back in for work at 1 so I didn't have to work past 5 but it was obvious that wasn't going to happen (even if I had been called back at my appointment time I would not have gotten home by 1 because it took me forty-five minutes to get there from my apartment).
I got a text at 12:39 that it was my turn. I'm thinking that if you checked in on your phone, you get a text but if you check in at the kiosk in the main lobby or don't respond to the text within a certain amount of time, they page you. I go to the window and hand the lady my ID and birth certificate. She pulls up my file and sees that my birth date was changed in 2001 but there were no notes as to why. I would love to know what happened in 2001 to cause my birth date to be changed. I know I have had to get a replacement card a couple of times since I got married in 1995 but I cannot remember if one of those times was 2001 because I remember going to this specific office in 2017 or 2018 but cannot remember why. You'd think that when I went at that time, they would have noted that the birth date in my file didn't match my ID and change it, but they obviously did not.
But whatever. It's fixed now.
Now, I need to start the process of changing my name back which is going to be its own form of hell. I have used my current last name for thirty years now and there are so many things that will need to be changed. But I am looking forward to not being linked to my ex in any longer.
