I booked my flight to the USA

I did it, finally made a decision on whether to go to the USA or not. I'm going....

I am leaving on October 22nd, will do the oath ceremony on October 24th and than, somewhere in the next week I hope to be able to go to the Passport Agency in San Francisco for my US passport so I can leave again on November the 4th.

I called the 1-800 number at the passport agency and was told that I can only make appointments when my travel date is less than 2 weeks away.

I called the automated appointment line for the S.F. agency but the first available appointment was exactly 2 weeks out (so if traveling within 2 weeks, how on earth can the appointment be in two weeks?).
I am really puzzled how that is going to work out, but we'll see, I booked the flight with a "changeable travel date" so that I can prepone (in the best case scenario) or postpone (in the worse case).