apans just going to depress us, and not.quot;

    I didnt icular interest in Greece, but I o agree ed  forty thousand dollars.

    quot;Forty t a feryside,quot; Izumi said. Discount plane tickets  us back around four t leaves ty-six. Figure a ts enoug do you say? Lets go. ell let t t later on.quot;

    I looked around. ty. And surely taking all our money and fleeing to Greece after a disastrous affair.  a mess, I t. I gazed at t time. as t my life o?

    quot;All rig; I said finally. quot;Lets do it.quot;

    At  day, I ter of resignation. My boss  it  to put me on extended leave for time being. My colleagues artled to  1 ed to quit, but no one tried very o talk me out of it. Quitting a job is not so difficult, after all, I discovered. Once you make up your mind to get rid of somettle you cant discard. No ? not very little. Once you put your mind to it, t get rid of. And once you start tossing t, you find yourself ing to get rid of everyts as if youd gambled a all your money and decided,  t . too mucrouble to cling to t.

    I packed everyt and need into one medium-sized blue Samsonite suitcase. Izumi took about t of baggage.

    As , I errible fear t someone else aken my bag by mistake. to be tens of tical blue Samsonite bags in t to Greece, open up tcase, and find it stuffed y attack s over me. If tcase got lost, t to link me to my o Izumi. I suddenly felt as if I   sensation. tting on t plane tacself to some convenient packaging t looked like me. My mi