I Don't Want To Talk About It - So DON'T ASK

Ok, so let me update those of you who don't know the story. This past Thursday I'm getting nervous because my passport is overdue in my hands for my trip to Eastern Europe. Well, on a hunch I give the State Department a call and lo and behold, my passport has been put on hold - or frozen if you will. It seems, that my birth certificate could not be authenticated. Yes it was a certified copy and no it wasn't from a hospital - it was from a county courthouse. Anyhoodlez, the only logical and tangible advice I get from "Natalie" the operator of death is that I should
1. BUY a new birth certificate from some random place
2. call my Congressman

I opted for #2. This whole thing went down at about 4:30 Thursday afternoon. By 11:30 am yesterday [Friday], Senator K. B. Hutchison had her office so all over it, the State Dept. overnighted my passport. El problemo? It never got here. Guess I'm not going tomorrow - I don't want to talk about it.