Wednesday, 4 September 2002

Outta here

Listening to:

ABBA: the definitive collection, a best-of album, full of hits from my childhood.

We went to a travel agent yesterday, and I said

Hello, we'd like a one-way ticket outta this place.

And then I handed over a plastic card that magically indexes a particular bank account, and the index number was typed into a computer, and the computer smiled, and lo, we had made a deposit on tickets to take us to Australia and not come back.

Ironically, my new British passport arrived in the mail this morning, so I was able to sing “I'm a Brit. I'm a Brit. I'm a Brit, Brit, Brit!” (in an arrangement of my own devising, but hats off to Rossini too) as we walked into work.

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