5 random observations the day after you told everyone you were going to leave - 7 weeks till take off

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1. Recovering from a surprise hangover, drag yourself to your little neighborhood corner store right before it closes at 9PM. Reaching for a box of tea bags suddenly realize that you better not buy your normal super saver extra large box as there is no way in hell you are going to drink all that tea, unless you find your inner Englishman who has so far successfully managed to hide within your subconscious. Experience a strong feeling of finality.

2. As the online auction for your vinyl singles is approaching its deadline, learn that the punk rock singles bought when you were 15 and drunk out of your face16 years ago at a Midnight Sun summer festival in Lahti have become collectors items. Wondering how rich you would be if you had been drunk every day through your punky teen years between 13 and 17 marvel your prospects of making at least 450 euros out of just 4 singles for which you paid the equivalent of 13 euros in good old Finnish marks.

3. Holy shit! I get more money out of those singles than what my air fare to Delhi cost me!

4. Mothers like Skype from the minute they first try it, but they really should understand that the whole idea of an online video cam call is that you can't fiddle with your face. It looks stupid, mom (on the left).

5. Steve Toltz's A Fraction of a Whole might be the funniest book ever written and although The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga is an exhilarating read, the right address for the Booker prize 08 would've been Australia. Now Oz only gets to receive me. I doubt that will soothe the nation.