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just shoot me
Posted Sep 30, 2002
I sent off my application for Uni, registered post. Went to the post office on the 6th of September- have the receipt to prove it.
So why did my application disappear? Why hasn´t it been delivered?
Since it only had a fiver AND my credit card information in it...
And god knows what happens to the application process when this happens, as the deadline was the 17th. I´ve already sent an email to enquire at the admissions office- no response. A phone call to the admissions office- they can´t find my papers. A phone call to the post office. A fax to the post office- no response yet. An email to the guy in enquiries, forwarding the email to admissions. No response yet. So there may my dream of finishing my bl*st*d BA end. And I can´t even muster up the anger needed to sort this, pronto. All I can do is feel sorry for myself and be weepy. So just shoot me.
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Pedantic
Posted Sep 26, 2002
Many have heard the old joke about pro and con being opposites, and congress then being the opposite of progress. What about the words bankrupt and corrupt. Where does the word bankruptcy come from?
Not nearly as funny, but still interesting. Please tell me if you find out...
cheers
ismarah
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Addicted to hootoo already?
Posted Sep 4, 2002
For the first time in my life, I wonder if I'm addicted to something.
The vice? H2G2, obviously.
For me, drinking has never been an issue - I don't like the way most alcohol tastes.
Smoking - never even contemplated taking that up, my self-destructive urges are more direct than that.
Drugs - nah. Always broke, even if I did want to try anything, which I don't.
Gambling - illegal in Iceland, and I'd always lose, anyway. So where's the fun if you never win?
Sex - hmmm. Ok, so that's more up my alley, but I think this habit is not damaging and in any case, it's firmly under control (yes, I said firmly 
)
Velocity - nah. Previously mentioned self-destructive tendencies are very considerate, trying not to endanger anyone else.
Anything else I can't take up, since I've never even heard of those, as evidenced by me not mentioning them here.
So why now? and why H2G2?
Big questions - tiny little answers.
Because it's fun.
Because I am discovering things here (about myself) that I never knew.
Because it's a rush when someone comments on your entries.
Because you make new friends, all over the world.
So what's so bad about this?
Because I have a job that needs doing occasionally.
Because when your entries and posts don't spark a reply or a comment, you wonder if it's you, if you're just not interesting online, or at all, or if you've suddenly become invisible and everything you've written is invisible at the same time. Ok, so maybe that's just my way of thinking, but it still manages to make me sad. And sadness is not what H2G2 is about.
So what to do?
Beats me. But please, if you find any of my entries in PeerReview, or elsewhere, take good care of them, and my addiction, and now I'm off to join the H2G2 addicts club which I'm sure I saw somewhere. I'm sure we'll have interesting talks, and posts and entries...
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New things
Posted Aug 30, 2002
Why are we so afraid of doing something new? Afraid of failing, like that should end our very existance, should anyone find out?
Where do we lose that childlike ability to just go forth and discover the world?
I wish I knew. Maybe then I could backtrack to that point and relive it. Although, seeing as how I'm one of the anxious breed, maybe I was never there.
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Handies
Posted Aug 26, 2002
H2G2 lingo- http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A632431
Smileys- http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/Smiley#weird
The Post- http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/thepost
The Post Links- http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A660304
Clubs and Societies- http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A660340
PeerReview- http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/PeerReview
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