Dream Within a Dream

My train for today was 8:23AM. I set my alarm for 7:00AM so that I can have plenty of time to get to the station.

I wake up to find it's 11:04 and my fucking alarm clock blinking at me. The reason? There's a housewide electricity outage. From what I can tell, the electricity had only returned itself for maybe an hour and that the outage took place sometime between 3 and 4.

How I know this? Because the clock starts from whenever the outage cut out and blinks the hours until someone resets it. The blinking is at 4 fucking AM. I went to bed around 2AM. Easy deductions.

But what pisses me off the most? Amtrak has my phone number. But instead of giving me an early morning call, I have to pay them extra to change my ticket times so I can head over to Chicago. Not only that, I have to shell out money for a fucking hotel since now my trip is an overnight stay. Even fucking worse? The Chinese consulate doesn't open after 2pm, because it's a shithead and therefore I can't even run in on the afternoon train and try to just get this shit done.

And the reason I have to go to Chicago? Renew my fucking passport that the consulate won't let me mail in. It's like the world lives to fuck me over right now.

Now I have to go apologize for being noisy since it was either slam the door in anger or break my hand against the wall. Gah!!!!!!!! If you need me, I'll be waking pixels to make myself feel better.

Heading out to grab some grub for the trip and...

Fuck, I'm so freaking tired and I haven't even began dealing with the bureaucracy.

I don't know why the consulate can't make things easier on people. Or make the entire thing cheaper. I swear, the money I'm spending on train tickets and housing is more than the entire trip is warrant. Blah.

Should've choose a school in Chicago to make my life easier...