awash in a sea of stupid.

I've spent most of the last two days trying to get all of my personal documentation to match up with who I actually am. Can't register my car, because I can't transfer my insurance, because I moved to a new state, because I got married, which results in a change to my name, which doesn't yet agree with my social security information, which messes up my credit report. Seems like there should be a way to make all of this automatic. But heaven forbid the government should be allowed to track me in such an effective way. This is punishment for my massive tax refund, I feel certain.

Naturally, all of this trouble really emphasizes my original point, which was that no New Yorker in their right mind should ever leave New York for New Jersey. If I had just stuck with my instinct (which was to pretend I was living in NY all along), then I wouldn't be having all of this trouble. My mother-in-law reminds me that when she was married, women left their parents' homes for their husband's home, thereby eliminating all of that in-between nonsense. There was that, and the fact that when they married, they hadn't yet been employed, so they had no social security number to mess around with.