Yay!

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I don't usually do this, but... a personal post.

South Thames Foundation School! In or near London for the next two years. Best pre-birthday present I could have asked for.

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[ranalore.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Sounds like you're fond of London, so this is excellent.

[kallistei.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Mostly I was worried I was going to be exiled to the middle of nowhere. Or Wales. Now I need to sit down and list my job options. Growing up is hard!

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

See, I'd love the chance to live in Wales, so there you go. *G*

[kallistei.livejournal.com]

It's nice for a visit, but I'm an old city girl. Cardiff's too new for me, and everywhere else is too small.

(Now watch me get stuck in... Ashford or something.)

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

I have no idea of comparative age of cities, and you have to remember that I live in a nation where "old city" is something that was around in the eighteenth century. Ancient is sixteenth and prior. *G*

I don't know the geography well enough to know Ashford.

[kallistei.livejournal.com]

The older the better! Roman is ideal XD

It's in Kent, by the coast. Actually very nice, just... small. And also conceivably one of the places I might end up.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

Pffft. I'm of Viking stock. Give me a good longship over an aqueduct. *G*

Oooh, coastal is good. Is it on the coast, or just near it? And for all the things I can get via the internet, I do like being in or near a fair-sized city for some good hangout spots.

[kallistei.livejournal.com]

The local curry house is probably the closest I'd get to my ancestral history XD So I'll take the Mediterraneans instead. Though I wouldn't refuse a longship if it was offered! I really need to go back to York at some point.

Near. Although Brighton is another of my possible options, and that's definitely seaside. Sea is good! :D Luckily, hospital work pretty much guarantees being near a good-sized town, but there are some things that are only really available in London.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

Mmm, curry. I am easily distracted by food. *G* And it's not just ancestry, it's that it's a ship. I am predictable in my tastes. ;-)

Oooh, Brighton! Man, I really need to get my passport.

[kallistei.livejournal.com]

Hee. Food is a good thing to be distracted by. And I haven't been on a ship, or even a boat, in forever. I should remedy that soon.

... no passport?

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

I wish Changmin's hyung-deul were distracted by food more often. Been a while since I've been on a ship that wasn't anchored. Shame.

Nope. I've been lazy about it.

[kallistei.livejournal.com]

Definitely. I still want to know what idiot thought it would be a good idea for any of them to be on a diet.

O.O But you can't go anywhere without a passport!

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

Whichever of their handlers does research on the Japanese music industry, most likely. The androgynous look is pretty popular there.

I have fifty states to choose from, and I've been to most of them. *G* If I'm gonna go ruin-hopping with Rune down in Oaxaca, though, I'll need it. Also, if I round up the money to go see Senor while he's hanging out in Spain. Also also, Sweden with Eliza, and Japan with various and sundry folks of my acquaintance, and Scotland, Wales, Ireland for family research purposes.

I've got the paperwork, just got to fill it out.

[kallistei.livejournal.com]

Androgynous and skeletal are not the same thing. Although I know sometimes the entertainment industries get a tad confused.

I need to make it to South America. One day. I still feel it was a tragedy that I had no clue who the boys were when I was in Japan.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

I suspect the reasoning is that skeletal is as close as these boys will get to adrogynous, so that's what their handlers aim for. It drives me insane.

I don't know if I'll ever hit South America, but I figure Mesoamerica is a good goal. *G* It kills me I didn't know who the boys were when they were in L.A. in 2004. Something tells me they won't be coming back this way until I'm up in the Pacific Northwest, and I'll be SOL.

[kallistei.livejournal.com]

Me too.

I meant to ask why Sweden? And also, what's SOL?

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

I'm heavily Swedish on my father's father's side. *G* SOL is "shit out of luck."

[kallistei.livejournal.com]

Ahhh. I forget sometimes just how big certain countries are.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

Sweden doesn't look that large, but possibly I'm a bit biased. ;-)

[kallistei.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean Sweden, but I think you know that already. Still, I suspect it's larger than either of my countries anyway. Sigh.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

I wasn't sure, so I made the joke. *G* Which are your countries, if I may ask?

[kallistei.livejournal.com]

Sri Lanka by birth and the UK by... upbringing and choice. With a few others between the two, just for variety.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

Variety's good, or so you'd think, given my ethnic background. *G* I don't know much about Sri Lanka. I shall have to educate myself.

[kallistei.livejournal.com]

I like variety. Hmm... Sri Lanka? *sigh* At the moment, that's all I've got.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

I know whereof you speak.

[kallistei.livejournal.com]

Hmm?

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

At the moment, that's all you've got.

[kallistei.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's all very complicated.