2007-09-04 10:41 pm

Proof of identity?

More Surprises:
I have name-based ID e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e

It's coming in line. I have BCID, bank card, SFU Library, SFU internal database, and now, after more than a month of visits to the registar's, a matching U-Pass - I said "it seems to have the wrong picture on it, can you print me a new one?" This, finally, worked, and now I don't have to fish through my wallet whenever I see Translink police, because now my U-Pass and other ID match.

SFU and ICBC will only give you new ID when you turn in your old ones. I hand over an old name, I get back the right one. The bind is that the picture ID is the top priority on replacement, but I also want to hold onto the old  pictures. As I lose them, I feel like he/I is/am slowly being erased, falling into smoke and drifting away from us and into the otherworld.

You see, I cannot remember my father's face, and there are so few photos of him.

I have yet to replace my passport, medicare, credit card, Vancouver library card, and my birth certificate. Eventually there will be no card to say that he/I ever existed.

Proof, I guess. )
2005-10-02 03:07 am

Poker

    Deal me a hand. This looks familiar. Let's play like we used to. Let's (what ?) like we used to.

Like old times?
     No.
 Yes.
            Like Slow Glass; Like a slow mirror.

Hear the man's position and it's like a drag-net catching on forgotten fragments of strangled egos.

     Turning someone away at the door is a first.

Food cools in the fridge while conversation spirals late into the evening and Scrabble turns cooperative.

                                                      Amen.


Slow Glass: http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/shaw/shaw1.html