Sleepy yet determined :)

.. to write about the next little installment of my trip preparations, that is. My travel money arrived today, look at it, it's rather pretty and makes me feel a whole lot richer than I actually am...

The Icelandic Krona in particular are very ornate and Norse looking, all wooden churches and men with long grey beards. Some of the Canadian dollars are plastic, weird! The American dollars (especially $1 Bill) are so familiar to me even though I've only seen them in person once before, I guess it must be all the music videos with guns and bitches and that stuff. In any case, I'm resisting (so far successfully..who knows how long this will last) the temptation to throw all the notes around the room whilst jumping on furniture / rolling around on the floor / shooting a mock pistol and drinking champagne. If only because it will be too irritating to tidy up again afterwards, still wanna...

2:30am logic, what else to say...

Oh! Insurance (yawn)  - I decided to buy a package with Insure and Go, after having a chat with some of the other assistants about possible policies. At one stage, I was looking at one with Bupa for over £600, so I'm glad I shopped around as my Insure and Go policy cost about £250 until August 2013, that covers for both work and travel worldwide.. just not for manual labour ie. machine-operating (....lololol as if) or if someone wants to sue me, which is something I'd be hoping to avoid in any case. (Famous last words. . ?)

Enough of dull things like financial services, another postal arrival today was the final travel book in my collection, to see me through the ten days or so before I get to orientation. This one is centred on Montreal and Quebec City, which is awesome although it centres more on Montreal. One thing that put me off was that they put a picture / biography of the author on the first page, and he looks like a massive wanker. However, it seems interesting and useful (not to mention bag-sized) so I guess it all works out in the end. I'll let you know how I get on with it!

Think I'll leave it at that, as I'm already feeling suitably groggy, and typing coherent sentences is proving difficult. The thing that always happens when I have no job, has of course happened again.. in that my sleep patterns are, shall we say, erratic. So goodbye from 3am, and see you again sometime you don't expect ;)

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