I just returned from an outsourced Application Support Center where my fingerprints were taken as part of the processing of my application for citizenship and I wonder:

1. What does it tell us about the situation in a country when the process of becoming its citizen makes one feels afraid and or like a criminal?
2. If my fingerprints were taken some 4 years ago at the same center and with the seemingly same computerized system, how come they need to do it again?
   Is it just pure inefficiency? or does someone make profit from the processing fee?

And if it makes you wonder why I applied (sometimes I wonder too, especially while watching Sicko recently)?
The answer is: I want to vote in 2008!

And while I did knit a little when I was waiting in line in the outside waiting room, after encountering the official that called some of us into the inside waiting area who barked at us to sit there or we may loose our place in line, I hurriedly finished the few stitches hanging on one dpn and hid my knitting in my little Crown Royal pouch, I was afraid she will notice me and declare my lovely dpns a weapon of mass destruction and confiscate them, and who can give up a lovely favorite set of Rosewood Lantern Moon dpns for the pleasure of some knitting? not I for sure.