The Wedding
Friday, July 01, 2005
Wedding Photos
Some wedding photos have been uploaded…
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gallery link
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http://www.mega-tokyo.com/gallery/wedding?page=1
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Thursday, June 30, 2005
Married!
I’m married. lots to say. Here is a pic, June 18th. 11am…
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Jabs!
Tommorow I have scheduled an appointment to get an MMR jab.. and diptheria.
Well heres hoping.. Costs more to get single jabs instead of a combined MMR… Shame I cant prove that I had all this as a kid but nobody keeps records of it :( and I dont have the time for a serology? test on my blood to see if I have enough levels of the antibodies.
So its gonna be great, pumped full of measels, mumps and rubella tasting vodka…
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Thursday, March 24, 2005
London Day 2
I’m not sure exactly how much I slept for during the night but my excellent body clock kicked into action at 5:45am whereby I was up and away back into London.
It was to a slight drizzle and a heavy despairing overcast sky that I trudged up Mill Hill and back down again to the tube station. From an empty carriage at the end-of-line to a nearly-bursting carriage at Tottenham Court Road saw me make my way down to Marble Arch.
For some delusional reason I had thought my 8am appointment meant that it were personally for me, unfortunatly I found myself standing in the drizzle with eight to ten other people outside a closed doctors office at quarter to eight.
The meat of the medical involved a blood test whereby I nearly started hyperventilating and a chest x-ray that I didnt get to see (but really wanted to). Still, its nice to know I’m exactly 5’7, weight 63kg (138lbs) and have a 110/70 blood pressure. I was more interested in my chest x-ray than all that. I hear I get to keep it when I get to america. Maybe I can frame it.
The scariest thing to come out of the medical is that they want me to have an MMR (Measels, Mumps and Rubella) shot, despsite having mumps, chicken pox etc etc etc as a child, and also I need to have a diptheria shot, which for some reason I associate with dogs and stranger, typhoid.
So, an MMR and Diptheria… I particuarly dont want an MMR jab….
The interview at the embassy was a non-event. After waiting over two hours in a sweaty closed hall space with fiver hundered other visitors and nary an open window or fan in sight, all I had to do was hand over my police record certificates (which state I dont have a record), and that was it!!!
I expected a grilling, trick questions and a sleight of hand routine with paper clips, but it all came to nothing. I was told I would be sent a sealed envelope which I cant open, that I must present to U.S, customs (the contents of which are all the paperwork I have done to date to get my U.S. Visa)...
So all in all, a lot of stress for nothing..
Now I get to stress out about landing in America and being interviewd by customs there!!
Guess I wont be taking any tea bags and other tea-associated contraband with me to that interview..
Tonight for about two hours, I am going to be drinking with my ex-work collegues. This allows me to seague back into the soap opera that is work and all its intra-departmental gossip and shenanigans. Screwdrivers and orangejuice all night I suspect.
Drank an ultra-mega-grande starbucks tea, I’m not quite sure what kind of tea the tea-bags where but it was nice, and its a shame you cant get said tea from starbucks in America.
It was good to see old friends from work, but we didnt have much to talk about beyond the obvious. Feels like I never left, the complaints are the same from the same people. Quite boring actually.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
London Day 1
Things got off to an auspicious start this morning when I was fishing through my odds and ends bag, I managed to grab my razor (triple blade at that) and carve my thumb open. After haemoraging nearly a pint of blood I managed to wrestle half a dozen bandaids onto it. It was already seeping through soon afterwards…
Currently I’m sat in the waiting area in Darlington with half an hour to go. The rail networks must have done a lot of work since I had last ridden the train to London, todays journey will only take two and a half hours, where as before I’m quite sure it used to take four hours.
I have some slight form of trepidation going back to London for two days without anywhere to go. Once I have dealt with having my oddly U.S. sized passport photos taken I tihnk I will either go visit the National Museum out back of Tottenham Court Road or I might badger the travel agent about flights next week…
In the evening I’m going to stay with my dads cousin, Janet, whom I have never before met and I’m not quite looking forward to it. I feel as if I am putting her out.
Tomorow is going to be an early 6am start, and I’ve no idea how long those proceedings will last. This might give me a lot of time after the embassy to visit another museum or I could be there all day. Drinking with the boys in the evening before returning home at about 1am Friday morning.
For this trip I am going to read Neal Stephensons ‘Cryptonomicon’ for the second or third time. I have a faint memory of the finale of the book but scant memory of the rest of it.
Idling just outside of York now, the field outside the window is muddy green and plump full of dusky and black faced sheep with govs of fluffy white lambs. One of the ewes seems to have two lambs which I find quite odd, as I thought sheep like other cattle only dropped one offspring rather than twins. Its good to see spring coming to the farms.
Train in front of us as broken down, which explains the long wait next to this field. Might be here a while yet.
I have just seen a lot of ewes with two lambs each, so maybe it is a common occurance.
Arriving in York 20 minutes late and a toasted ham and cheese sandwhich later, an elderly woman said to me ‘Excuse me, but I think your in my seat’, and sure enough her ticket had my seat number on it.. Apart from the fact I booked it over a month ago, the silly todgers have double booked us! All is well as train staff tell her to sit in any vacant seat…
Ten minutes out of London and I have a throbbing headache…
What a day.
So the train gets in thirty minutes late and I manage to get into town about 4pm.. Rushed off to where I know of a place that does odd sized U.S. passport photos and…. yes.. their equipment is broken down. Aaaargh!! So I rush off with vague directions from the shop assistant but end up getting confusaled, its 4:30pm, and another shop gives me directions to this mysterious street I am hunting.. Just shy of ten to five I get my photo taken.
Photos in backpack, I decide its tea time and push off back to Soho for my long awaited rendevous with Wagamamas restaurant. Ooooh its good stuff. I had a fantastic chicken ramen and peached ice tea (not sweat tea like in america).
It was great to meet David and Janet that night, they are such nice people and we talked family all night, going over bits of the family tree and me learning some new info and finding out about more of my kin who died in world war 1 and such. The George side has a complex family, illegitimate kids back in the 1880’s, marrying deceased wives sisters, that sort of thing. Scandals with aristocracy!
Seems Pa George had a sister called Amy George! how weird a co-incidence. I learnt Compton is a very old posh name.. I’m still glad Dad didnt stick me with the Compton name.
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Tuesday, March 22, 2005
To London
Off to London tomorrow for my fiancee visa inquisition… The right to be able to marry whomever I choose to marry now hinges upon the might of the U.S. government…
Should be loads of fun. I am taking every scrap of paperwork I own that isnt remotly connected, just in case they ask for something out of left field.
The only hurdle is the vaccination record.. I dont have one. I mean, the local council fed us polio vaccine etc when I was a baby, and all that other stuff.. And I’ve had chicken pox, mumps, etc etc etc.. But I dont have a card with ‘Catch 5 diseases get a free vaccination’ reward scheme like they have in starbucks and affiliated coffee dens…
I can only tell him I have had these things… and.. well.. I dunno….
He might balk and say I get no admission since I havnt had a dengue fever vaccination or a typhoid-b vaccination..
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