Mom called me last night in the middle of a debate competition. I shut the phone off in a hurry so I wouldn't disrupt it even MORE than I already had, so I didn't get the phone call. However, when I got home I had e-mails waiting for me. Lots of them.

Someone has apparently stolen my identity and opened a phone account in the United States with it. They somehow got ahold of my social security number, god only knows how, ran the phone bill up to $300, and then let it go to collections. Mom got a bill yesterday, and initiated the identity theft process.

So I've been up at insane hours trying to get ahold of her, and I have to deal with all of the ensuing garbage from halfway across the world. I hate people, have I mentioned that? Ugh. I really have no idea what's going on.

Today, I need to go get scans of my passport, PC id, and my drivers license, so I can email them to my mom

The local police department has my phone number here in China, and they have my e-mail address.

All that's really left to do is to make sure that nothing ELSE has happened with my stuff. Hopefully this is it.