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Trials and tribulations of a Southerner who willingly moves to London in the pursuit of a Masters degree in Criminology at LSE. Why? It was either A) Get a new job, B) Get married/settle down (okay-B was never really on the table) or C) Move 4000 miles from home in the hopes of learning about life, love, writing and oh, yeah, Criminology!

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

So I'm leaping forward a bit only because life sped way the heck up over the past month and today is the beginning of many slow days. Here are a few weird things I've noted today:

1. In the LSE library we have two elevator cars. Two cars for 12,00 people to share. Here's the weird thing-as the doors close a voice announces "Door Closing" and the voice is a dead wringer for (I believe) Cartman's voice from South Park. That flattened 'doozth cloeszthing' in a weird nasally pitch-dead on.
2. Your computer will ALWAYS have a physical memory dump (and this is not some odd toilet humour) an then run a system check to inform you that your FAT32 (I assume this is the amount of centimeters my ass is growing by the day from sitting in front of a monitor) was a bit broken. These events will ALWAYS ALWAYS occur when you have a deadline, particularly the closer that little second hand ticks towards 4:30 (sorry, 16.30).
3. The instructions to submit your exam will always include: 'must upload by 18.30 BST. Now, I ask ya'll, what the hell is BST? British standard Time? Baltic Summer? Britains Suck at Time? (I later found out it means British Summer Time but by that definition it should only apply in summtertime what what time is that in January?) I figured 16.30 would cover all bases in case of weird lunar/maritime/greenwhich/el nino calendars.
4. If you write your friend in Belize telling her that the weather has been mild and that she shouldn't worry too much about freezing to death, there will be a severe cold snap with 80 mph wind gusts to follow within 48 hours. Sorry Sam!!!!
5. If it's not the hot water heater, it'll be the vaccuum. Stay tuned for photos of me and T hauling a Hoover on the Tube.

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