Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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“We have normality. I repeat, we have normality.
…Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.” Slowly life is starting to return to normal. Or what passes for normal these days. Although we are both still, seemingly, hyper stressed, and our stuff is one week away from being in the country (as opposed to continuing its trek around the country),…
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A bit of fear, a bit of excitement.
So I have a job. It’s per diem, but it’s in an ER and it sounds like it’s a really interesting client population. So that’s pretty awesome. However, today they contacted me and said “we can’t find your details off your social security number”. There were also some visa queries… which led to a quite…
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Of all the things…
…I thought I’d struggle to get in the USA, Rosehip tea wasn’t one of them. Now I know, if we go to the right grocery store, we’ll find it. I have faith. But it’s my go-to bed-time comfort-tea. And we’ve not got any. And we’ve been to about 4 stores, and none of them have…
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I am a
PERSONNUMBER!Well, sorta. I have discovered the truly wonderful and Brazil-like nature of attempting to navigate bureaucracy without the magic number. It turns out that it is, essentially, impossible. However, towards the end of last week that magic card arrived. And suddenly a billion doors opened up to me. I now have health insurance (thanks to…
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Oh hey, it’s 2016
How did that happen then? So, I think I missed my year in review thing for 2014, and I’ve felt a bit sad about that. But hey. Instead of worrying about it more, here is my 2015 in review, since 2016 has arrived. A few days ago we were sat with our friends seeing in…
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I doubt anyone really cares, but here’s why.
All of these things other people have said these things much more eloquently than I ever will, but I’m going to say them anyway. So a lot of people ask me ‘Why America’, and rarely do I give the real answer. I say “My wife’s American, and it’s time for us to be near her…
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It’s like an alternate dimension.
I know people have transferred their lives through far greater changes than this. Moving from the UK to the US is hardly considered complex by the standards of modern life. And let us be clear, there are people who are, at this very moment, undergoing enormously harder life changes that this. I understand that, and…
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Blessing or Challenge
So when we arrived, we had set up a 6 month sublet in the city where Kathryn grew up. It’s ace. We’re sharing for a couple of weeks with the (lovely) people who own the house and then we’ll be here about 5 months without them. The timing’s impeccable, and the location’s delicious. It seemed…
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Dear god, was that stressful enough
I don’t think I can truly describe how insanely stressful this whole experience has been. I have no idea how my friends with kids did this. Moving day approached with startling rapidity and we threw our life into boxes and containers, and also into charity shops and onto gumtree.
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This new trial
So it turns out that it’s quite stressful this. I spent much of the day feeling pretty f’kin low, because our car which is probably worth about 3-3.5k now it’s cleaned and shiny is not selling. Apparently Xmas is a terrible time of year to sell a car. Of course, the reason we’re trying to…