i had to go get my license renewed today. had to trade in the old trusty illinois drivers license from 1998 in exchange for a texas state drivers license (which apparently won’t be sent to this house for 4 to 6 weeks). now, lucky me, i’ll get to carry a little piece of texas around with me wherever i go…ugh. and i had to pay 24 damned dollars for this privilege, too. what did that 24 dollars pay for? i don’t understand. it’s a little piece of plastic with a picture and some type on it. i didn’t know i would end up relieved of so much money this afternoon. so it goes.

okay, i also encountered something i just now realized is a pet peeve of mine. since drivers licenses are no longer just hard-laminated pieces of paper like they used to be, that means you can’t actually sign them anymore. i’m sure you know already. so to sign your license, you get to sign on the little computerized screen thingy with a pen-that’s-not-a-pen, more like just a pen-shaped hard plastic thing. i hate signing on little screens. it never ever comes out looking anything like my signature. i’m pretty sure i forgot a letter in my own last name just through frustration of trying to “write” plastic on plastic instead of ballpoint on paper. of course, the total result is so illegible that it won’t matter because you can’t tell what it’s supposed to say anyway. and this will be the signature people compare to whenever i’m asked to sign something in stores and whatnot, so now i’m forever being judged by this terrible signature. awful system, awful. at least when you have to sign one of those things for ups or something, you never have to deal with it again.

right now i’m reading a collection of plays by oscar wilde. i just love his ability to write a conversation between a bunch of high-society hypocrites that’s terribly witty and fun to listen to but still means absolutely nothing. i think i will go enjoy that talent of his right now.