.... random rants and rambles. no agenda. yet.

19) Forms. They always want to know ridiculous things like exactly where you've lived for the past 17 years, exactly how long you lived at each place, and exactly how much you earn (f***ed if I know?! that's the point of being freelance, is it not?). Then you have to make sure you've ticked all the right boxes and provided all the right proof of ID, or you have to start filling them in all over again.

20) Being forced to start filling in forms all over again. This has happened to me twice, and I'm not sure which time was the most annoying; the time I had to fill in a long, long, longgggg form TWICE because my signature was like, one millimetre outside the box I was meant to sign it in and the guy at the Post Office said I had to fill it in again... or the time I had to fill in another form twice AND go and get my passport photo taken again because I was smiling too much in the first one, and the other guy in the Post Office wouldn't stamp it for me, and he made me go and have it done again, making absolutely sure that my eyes were completely open and my mouth was shut.

Heavensakes. Down with forms!