'Sleeper'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
You'll probably be ok. But I know your anxiety. Back in 1995, I sent my passport in for renewal FOUR MONTHS before I was scheduled to leave, so I wouldn't have to try to renew it at the embassy when it expired while I was abroad. Plenty of lead time.
And then Congress had one of its episodes and shut down the federal government. Cue panic.
I got it a week before my plane left.
I'm still personally pissed at Newt Gingrich for that.
So you'll be fine.
I just heard a hilarious story last night from a friend who was mugged just after moving to a new city, so lost every piece of ID she had, along with the cash she was going to open a new bank account with. Her mother sent her old passport from when she was NINE and she actually used that as picture ID! Along with the whole sob story, of course.
Anyone else watching NASA TV? The Mars orbiter is just about to fire its engines to enter orbit.
Also, I'm glad I'm not from a former soviet state and waiting on a visa, like three of my classmates (two Moldovans and one Azerbaijani).
It also takes a long time to get a visa from Freedonia....
Hail, Hail Freedonia
Land of the spree, and the home of the knave!
The MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) has emerged from the far side of Mars and everything looks good.
eta: Yay! They've confirmed it has successfully entered orbit.
That's the very site that told me my passport wouldn't be arriving until after my trip. So I called and upgraded my service, but it's not updated online yet.