{"id":346,"date":"2006-06-01T16:36:29","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T16:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/346"},"modified":"2006-06-01T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T16:36:29","slug":"where-on-earth-do-i-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/346","title":{"rendered":"Where on earth do I live?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;official&#8221; address situation has become quite confusing. Whenever I have to fill out a form online, or give someone my address for one reason or another, it always causes little alarm bells to go off in my head. They scream, &#8220;JOSH! YOU DON&#8217;T HAVE AN ADDRESS! WHAT WILL YOU SAY!?&#8221; Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m originally from California, right? Ok, so my home address is in Chino Hills, CA&#8230;where my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/harriets_pics\/\">mom<\/a> currently resides. So let&#8217;s record this:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Address 1<\/strong>: Chino Hills, CA 91709<\/p>\n<p>The confusion begins when one realizes that for the past 2 years I&#8217;ve been a student in Indiana. I guess it&#8217;s not so confusing, until I explain that in Bloomington I had 2 addresses. The first was my home address:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Address 2<\/strong>: Bloomington, IN 47403<\/p>\n<p>This address worked for a little while, until I realized that my apartment complex had trouble receiving packages (and even regular mail sometimes). Easy fix: use my work address.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Address 3<\/strong>: Bloomington, IN 47408<\/p>\n<p>The work address was suitable for the rest of my stay, so I used that for all mail that I would receive in Bloomington. Here comes the next bit of confusion: last summer I worked in San Diego, making a need for yet another address:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Address 4<\/strong>: San Diego, CA 92122<\/p>\n<p>Recently I was contacted by a doctor I visited while in SD for the summer who said he had been mailing me a bill to my SD address. I <em>definitely<\/em> was not receiving it in Bloomington, then. So, out of nowhere, this old address popped back in to my life. I paid the bill, so hopefully it&#8217;s out now.<\/p>\n<p>This brings us to the present. Currently, I&#8217;m squatting in Karen&#8217;s apartment in Chicago. The problem here is that I am not reliably receiving mail unless it has Karen&#8217;s name on it&#8230;otherwise it doesn&#8217;t get delivered. Either way, it&#8217;s another address:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Address 5<\/strong>: Chicago, IL 60615 (c\/o Karen)<\/p>\n<p>I submit these 5 addresses as a form of proof that, in fact, I live a nomadic lifestyle. I put my bags on my back every few years or months&#8230;and head out to a brand new place. I like it, but the standard of living in the US that depends on Postal addresses does not. I&#8217;ll try to make due with what I&#8217;ve got, but for the time being, my mom may be forwarding a lot of mail&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;official&#8221; address situation has become quite confusing. Whenever I have to fill out a form online, or give someone my address for one reason or another, it always causes little alarm bells to go off in my head. They scream, &#8220;JOSH! YOU DON&#8217;T HAVE AN ADDRESS! WHAT WILL YOU SAY!?&#8221; Here&#8217;s why: I&#8217;m originally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago-summer-2006","category-rambling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}