dumpling

I have to get a new passport. Passport offices are the the opposite of a place -they are like a strange in- between non-space for people who are also in a bad inbetween non-passport/non-existent space. Everyone just waits and waits and clutches their number in their sweaty palms. My friend once told me about going to a passport office and he got the number 21 - and was excited because the counter was at 16 - until he realized that it was 16A and he had 21B and the A's went up to 100.
I think the one thing more terrible than a SARS outbreak must be the rash of pro-city dinosaur rock concerts that follow. Yawn.