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My Words, Censored

My source in China tells me that this blog is now censored by the Chinese internet and he cannot view it. I just want to say ... Mark, that has made my MONTH! It has enabled me to realise a dream in a way I had not imagined, with an unexpected rapidity. For almost eleven years, from the age of thirteen when I read my first Robert Ludlum , I thought that joining a secret spy agency would be cool. Then, at the age of twenty-four, one of my friends was offered a job at MI5 and turned it down because it didn't pay so well. My entire goal of going to London was to work in a London Museum. Then I was offered a job at the Geffrye Museum and I turned it down because it didn't pay so well. After this, the aforementioned friend and I decided that we were cool for the jobs we had turned down, not the jobs we had accepted, and I discovered that goals were sometimes useful to obtain simply to teach you that your priorities have shifted a little. Lately I have been aspiring to be t