A great day on Twitter

So I’m trying to get things in order to attend a hackathon against gender-based violence in rural India put on by a woman named Chinmayi who had been a GWOB participant, then mentee, and is now a friend of mine. Trying to sort things out means filling out an online visa application for India, which has been pure hilarity. The joys of Twitter are recreated here for the stake of posterity.

Sometimes people ask me why I take so long to get through passport control. Basically, I'm bad at choosing my fights pic.twitter.com/3kS5WQxszL

— Willow Bruhaha (@willowbl00) January 5, 2016

@justinpickard @eldang I wrote in "blue hair" but didn't mention the tattoos.Tentatively, Bangalore 20-23, Ranchi 23-26, Delhi 27th.

— Willow Bruhaha (@willowbl00) January 5, 2016

@eldang @willowbl00 – (Overspill from norms established to distinguish between vast numbers of similarly-named people in a pop of 1.2bn.)

— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) January 5, 2016

@AlabasterC @justinpickard @willowbl00 I would love to see a border guard, anywhere in the world, make sense of that one.

— Eldan Goldenberg (@eldang) January 5, 2016

"Recent front facing photograph with white background to be uploaded by the applicant." (image by @LibbyBulloff) pic.twitter.com/6tufMzu0h8

— Willow Bruhaha (@willowbl00) January 5, 2016

@willowbl00 @LibbyBulloff as your attorney, I recommend you carry on…

— Morgan Marquis-Boire (@headhntr) January 5, 2016

*weeps quietly into passport* pic.twitter.com/ozcLTqqHU9

— Willow Bruhaha (@willowbl00) January 5, 2016

@willowbl00 https://t.co/yrTYBp2Ocb Just give them this URL. That should cover it.

— Joshua Black (@docmoonlight) January 5, 2016

@willowbl00 I used 2 letter ISO codes last time. It might be more or less confusing…

— Smári McCarthy (@smarimc) January 5, 2016

@smarimc I can do 3-letter. Since end of 2010: AUS, AUT, BEL, CAN, DEU, HTI, ISL, IRL, ITA, KEN, NLD, NZL, PER, POL, SWE, CHE, TZA, GBR

— Willow Bruhaha (@willowbl00) January 5, 2016

@smarimc pic.twitter.com/UinKOOn7az

— Willow Bruhaha (@willowbl00) January 5, 2016

@altquinn @willowbl00 @smarimc Eminently reasonable guess of the language. That, or Welsh.

— Walter van Holst (@whvholst) January 5, 2016

I've gotten so much joy out of twitter today that it feels like 2009 again.

— Willow Bruhaha (@willowbl00) January 5, 2016