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Pizza! And microbrewed beer! And big drunken parties, and walking through Haight Ashbury and being offered drugs and Golden Gate park and walking to the Pacific to rid myself of a hangover and bagels and pancakes and SNAKES ON A PLANE! tonight! It's all happening! And amusing bets about the outcome of certain elements of the party and enormous ( Read more... )

Flight, so long, so dull ( Read more... )

Well, that about does her, wraps her all up. I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin' itself, down through the generations, westward the wagons, across the sands of time until-- aw, look at me, I'm ramblin' again. Well, I hope you folks enjoyed yourselves.

Catch ya later on down the trail.

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I watched a docu-film thing about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It's pretty reassuring. In my mind it's going to happen again while I'm out there, so I'm pretty laid back about it. I'm prepared. I'll dig people out of the rubble, organise bucket chains, start singalongs, do whatever needs to be done to ensure I attain hero status. Maybe some ( Read more... )

Bugger.

I need my mp3 player and sexy noise-cancelling headphones for the flight! It's a 14 hour journey! I've never gone for that long without listening to music!

Ok that's sort of selfish, and it may, MAY be ok and back to normal by Wednesday. Got a text from Sam this morning at 6am (he was due to fly out at 10), saying 'bastard fucking terrorists ( Read more... )

Ten days! I can count on my fingers, and I'm feeling sort of calm. I know I can pack quickly, I've got a list of all the bits and bobs I will need to take as well as the necessary clothes, and it's just nice to know it's all falling into place. Natwest have approved my credit card application, and that should be here within the week. Which make ( Read more... )

Also, I have just found out about this

Now I'm not sure it applies to international students, and in any case the university requires that I have health insurance, but it's pretty interesting. I feel kind of lucky going to such a progressive (for America) city, but also kind of like I'm missing out on the whole crazy experience that is The Rest Of ( Read more... )

So I work in a pub. It's my local Wetherspoons, and on any given night I can almost guarantee that someone I know will come in. Often it's someone I've not seen for a long time, so there's the inevitable catch up, where I get to say that yes! I am going to San Francisco for a year!

And I worry that that's how I'm defining myself now, as the 'guy ( Read more... )

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