It would be nice to take a long road trip and visit old friends
I'm fortunate that my parents are a good half-day road-trip away, as are some of our close friends in Ithaca. On the other hand, there are LJ folks we would /love/ to see more frequently, further than a convenient road-trip.
Concerning this documentary evidence thing, for me, it's a bit weird-feeling to have this officially required record of chunks of our life together. First, since I/we applied for my Permanant Resident status as his common-law spouse, we had to produce documentary evidence of our relationship (which turned into quite a bit of evidence, because we wanted to make sure they didn't turn us down as a relationship-of-convenience).
Now, this document of every time I've gone out of the country since 2003. It feels a bit odd; both important and trivial, the most banal part of the trips and the most easily recorded part..
I came across my file with the sheaf of photos and "documentary evidence" recently, and it was a bit like a memory-book, though it was commissioned by the gov't and cost me /quite/ a bit to submit.
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I'm fortunate that my parents are a good half-day road-trip away, as are some of our close friends in Ithaca. On the other hand, there are LJ folks we would /love/ to see more frequently, further than a convenient road-trip.
Concerning this documentary evidence thing, for me, it's a bit weird-feeling to have this officially required record of chunks of our life together. First, since I/we applied for my Permanant Resident status as his common-law spouse, we had to produce documentary evidence of our relationship (which turned into quite a bit of evidence, because we wanted to make sure they didn't turn us down as a relationship-of-convenience).
Now, this document of every time I've gone out of the country since 2003. It feels a bit odd; both important and trivial, the most banal part of the trips and the most easily recorded part..
I came across my file with the sheaf of photos and "documentary evidence" recently, and it was a bit like a memory-book, though it was commissioned by the gov't and cost me /quite/ a bit to submit.