{"id":670,"date":"2008-09-16T07:58:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T07:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2008\/09\/16\/in_which_youre_stuck_with_me_indefinitely\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T07:58:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T07:58:18","slug":"in_which_youre_stuck_with_me_indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2008\/09\/16\/in_which_youre_stuck_with_me_indefinitely\/","title":{"rendered":"In which you&#8217;re stuck with me&#8230;indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mwah ha ha haaaa.<\/em> My plans for world domination have just ticked one step closer to reality. Lock up your fish, chips and mushy peas, good folk of Britain \u2013 I&#8217;m not going anywhere for a long, long time.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lablit.com\/images\/ILR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"365\" \/><br \/>\n<em>A residence visa celebration party at Navarro&#8217;s, yesterday<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\nI took the pilgrimage down to the ominously named Lunar House in East Croydon, a building that looks remarkably like every other immigration establishment the world over, from the <em>Vreemdelingenpolitie<\/em> in Amsterdam to the Seattle Passport Agency: shabby 1960s architecture edged with grime and fear. After parting with 950 of your earth squids and queuing with the rest of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_New_Colossus\">tired, cold and huddled masses, yearning to breathe free<\/a> (or at the very least, to use their mobile phones), I was finally presented a shiny Indefinite Leave to Remain certification in my US passport.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt doesn&#8217;t seem like much, but as I slipped past the bored guys at the x-ray security checkpoint, clutching my prize, and fled the gloomy edifice into the bright Indian summer afternoon, I realized that an anxiety that has been dogging me for the past year had vanished.<\/p>\n<p>\nNow all I need is a job when my fellowship runs out. One step at a time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mwah ha ha haaaa. My plans for world domination have just ticked one step closer to reality. Lock up your fish, chips and mushy peas, good folk of Britain \u2013 I&#8217;m not going anywhere for a long, long time. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2008\/09\/16\/in_which_youre_stuck_with_me_indefinitely\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}