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vox is quiet these days. And I guess so am I...

Biggest and only news is that I have booked my mega plane ticket out of here. London to London via India, Nepal, Thailand, Bali, Australia, New Zealand, Cook Islands and USA, though who knows when or if I will be using the return portion of my ticket.

Today is midsummer's day and it's been freezing cold and raining all day. I wore my coat for the first time since I came back from Japan. This just counts as more evidence that I have made the right decision.

I am strangely not terrified.

I have set up a new blog here http://www.deletia.co.uk/ though i'll probably continue to post on vox when i feel like it.

Here's to lifelong adventures

it's easter sunday and there is practically no food in the house. i managed to find an aduki bean burger and some wilted rocket salad. oh and an apple. I have no chocolate.

It snowed all day yesterday. I went outside earlier and there is actually sun in the sky so i may go out for a run in a bit if i can time it right to avoid the dark grey clouds.

I am worried we are going to be kicked out of the house because I think the owners are wanting to sell it. We've only been here 6 months and I've been greatly enjoying being able to walk into work and back. I will be highly pissed off if we have to leave before I'm ready. On the flipside, that will mean I'll have more money. If I have more money I'm going to go to Beijing in the summer. Or maybe Finland and St Petersburg.

I had a meeting today in the coolest offices ever. Delights within included

• retro board games and toys everywhere
• bowls of chocolate biscuits and cupa chups lolly dispensers everywhere
• many fishtanks with many fish
• a drum kit
  
• a mini gym
• a library decked out like an old fashioned living room complete with overstuffed armchairs and a moose head on the wall
• a cinema
• an indoor garden with patio furniture and garden gnomes

I have serious office envy. We just moved offices and although our new one is definitely cooler than the last, i will now be forever pining to work somewhere that is so fun i will not want to come home at night

if you currently work in a boring office, have a browse around http://www.aintnodisco.com/ and http://www.officesnapshots.com/ and then go and have a little cry.

Slow Learner tagged me. I've never been tagged before. i feel like one of the cool kids now :p

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

Angdawa's efforts soon came to an end and in spite of the security of the rope I had not the heart to ask him to go on, so I took his place and went ahead

From Annapurna by Maurice Herzog. I've not started reading it yet, it's just on the top of my stupidly big teetering pile of books because I stole it off my brother's bookshelf last night. I'm on a nepal kick at the moment.

I tag blink_lu, Dr David Coddingsteine,kelly, wedgeh and Wissam if they haven't already done it because I don't pay attention....

In other news my Japan trip is all booked up: Kyoto - Tokyo - Sapporo - Morioka - Kyoto.
I really miss japan and i can't wait to go back. i get the feeling I'm just not going to want to leave again....

Also off to Budapest for lucy's hen weekend in a few weeks which will be a very welcome mini break. How lucky am I to live in Europe? I really wish I'd taken the time to take more advantage of it while I'm here. when i think about all the money i've spent on flights to asia....

oh well, off to watch prison bread. Roll on friday!