Indeed! I do miss Shanghai a bit.

No, but bad wine is hardly conducive to a state of calm. //

Doesn't sound great for spirituality…

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Indeed. Just one shared bag between mum and I, since it's only an overnight trip — we won't have a chance or reason to let it out of our sight, I imagine. Thankfully. And we'll be with family.

That was a surprisingly smooth visa application process. In and out within 15 minutes.

Good.

Still jetlagged, therefore a little fuzzy and would love to sleep, but need to push through today so I can get up at 7 tomorrow for a train to Guangzhou. Just in case, though, I've packed 80% of my stuff already…at worst I'll forget a comb or something.

The sun is positively beaming at you.

Geddit?

Good wine.

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Indeed. If I can't get it sorted within 2–3 weeks I'm going to have to drag that piece of paper with me to Edinburgh and see what can be done about it there…

Oh great. Because I have G6PD, I can't use whatever cream he was going to give me…so now I'm stuck with some generic reference letter.

Went to see the doc about that patch of skin on my toe. Turns out it's not a corn, but a wart. Huh. Glad I got that sorted out.

That, or some sort of CF/SD–whatever connector adapter. //