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Absinthe: now I'm kind of determined to find some. And hey, if it just gets me drunk rather than making me hallucinate, then at least I'm drunk, right? Heh. zahl may be right in thinking that I should mail it back, just in case. Zahl, send me a postal address and I'll see what I can do for you.

Here's an interesting thought. A guy from Burning Man sells make-your-own-absinthe kits. Or, like, I could just go to Burning Man.

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"Bear with me...": I had one guy respond to that sentence with "What part of London are you from?" (I try to tone down the American-ness of my accent when I'm here because it just leads to lots of questions.) It seemed perfectly normal to me, but he swore up and down that ONLY British people ever say that, and mostly only people from London and environs. Hm.

"You are very welcome": I just never thought of this as odd at all. But, maybe one person out of ten who hears me say it (on the phone) either laughs or is audibly smiling. Really, I'm not trying to be clever.