Here I am, in London, and do you think I can find a single packet of Twinings Earl Grey teabags anywhere?
I can find loose-leaf (not useful for a girl travelling without a strainer), decaffinated or the feminine Lady Grey version, but not plain, Earl Grey teabags.
But otherwise, London is proving to be a wonderful, wonderful place. Everywhere I turn, there is something beautiful or intriguing or astonishing for me to look at. Every place I travel to has echoes of something I've read or seen on TV or watched in the movies or heard in a song. After having read Neverwhere, I get thrills travelling the tube and hearing the stern voice warn me, "Mind the gap."
Yes, there has been work and a lot of it and a lot of political nastiness to deal with. That part sucks and is exhausting me. But London sustains and revives me and makes me remember the joy of being wide-eyed and experiencing the world for the first time,
Flat to the boards here in Dallas. Too much to report other than I watched in awe as a world record was broken.
No, not at the olympics, the world record for idiocy.
In less time than it took me to walk off the plane at LAX and get to immigration, a woman engaged me in conversation and said, "Gee, you Australians speak really good English!"
That has got to be some kind of record.
In much better news, my weekend was fabulous. Even if he didn't call my name and got us hopelessly lost. Innate sense of direction, my arse.
I'm off to Dallas and then London for work and probably won't be able to update or read until the first week of March.
I did some work for a client at the end of last year. They were so happy with it, they sent the report to their parent company in the US. Now the US and the UK divisions want a little bit of my voodoo too.
I really shouldn't be surprised that this has happened. VeryModern recently blogged about big astrological stuff happening and to see which houses it affected in your chart.
Well look at that, it's all happening in my houses of foreign travel and work.
Gotta love that space junk.
Take care of you and I'll share my adventures when I get back.
