Welcome to the choose and collect festival.

That’s right folks, it’s a good old Aussie election. Which not only is a chance to wow you with my literal translation of the Burmese word for election (see title), but is also a great excuse to post this:

Which is not the best Radiohead song, but it’s still pretty great.

This is all by way of an overlong introduction to the main point, I have been working (yes, paid employment) for the last two weeks as an issuing officer, thus fulfilling my two lifelong dreams: 1) working at an election; 2) wearing shoes for the first time in months.*

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