WELL, IT'S OFFICIAL!!!!
Please take note of that odd hole punched in my old driver's license from the state of Massachusetts! It is there because it is no longer valid. Yes, I am now a complete and total citizen of California and am licensed driver AND voter in this state of sunshine and this City By The Bay filled with fog! My low beams are on! True, I am quite possibly the World's Worst Driver and have no plans of driving much but I didn't want to lose my ability to drive if I should want to do so! When I was living in Salem, MA I had a car. I had 4 wrecks in one month. In my defense, only 3 of those wrecks were my fault. Anyway, I passed my test today and will be receiving my new license in the mail soon.

...You think the picture from MA is bad -- you should see the new CA one. I look like a human about to morph into a Muppet. And, for some reason, I tilted my head to the left and looked past the DMV camera up to right. You know. As if I had been posed by some lame Sears portrait photographer waiting for her lunch break. Go figure. Still, I can continue to drive if anyone will loan me his/her car. I don't think B is likely to let me drive his pretty Honda Element -- but, quite honestly, I don't want to drive it. I wonder if Ing will let me drive her car sometime. Hmmmm...

So, the test was filled with questions which I felt were sort of tricky. For instance, I didn't know how much or how old a kid should be to require a child harness. ....In the state of California that would be 5 years old and 55 lbs. I also thought it was cool to have .08% blood alcohol concentration. It is not. I thought .10% was not cool. It is, apparently, pretty cold at that point. Oh, and I guess you have to break for the elderly when they cross the street. (just kidding)

I chatted with the lady who graded my test. She was sweet.

There were some interesting souls at the DMV today. There are a lot of interesting souls in San Francisco but a good number of them were at the DMV today. I was in line behind this cute girl of about 45 who had really interesting hair. Her name was "Margaret" but she was changing it to "Summer Dove Breeze" --- the guy at the desk didn't seem at all phased. She handed her info/papers to him and I do believe she will be Summer Dove Breeze within 60 days. She is an artiste.

I'm meeting up with Ing to see a movie at The Castro about Filipino transgender'd folks in Isreal living with Hasidic Jews. Should be interesting. I wonder what sort of adventurous trouble Ing and I will get into tonight! Hmmmmm....