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Old 09-26-2008, 09:29 AM   #1
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I assign the impending hell week and the mountains of papers and examinations it brings about. And on my birthday I have two exams and a paper due. Off to Mordor! The papers and the exams and the sadistic professors! Bwahaha!
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Old 09-29-2008, 05:45 AM   #2
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Well, like I said, German grammar belongs to Mordor - or at least the cases do. Not the language as a whole by any means, but I'm convinced Germans make up their grammar as they go along.

Also to Mordor:
weighing 60lbs more than you're supposed to, waking up at 4 am every day, heartburn, having blood drawn all the time, and other 3rd trimester fun....

buying a new, expensive pair of shoes for your daughter to wear to school and having her lose them two weeks later...

realistic paper butterfly mobiles brought home from school and hung in the kitchen of someone with severe Lepidopterophobia ... I'd take it down, but I'm afraid to touch it...

and student loans that only come halfway through the semester!
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Old 09-29-2008, 05:54 AM   #3
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Well, like I said, German grammar belongs to Mordor - or at least the cases do. Not the language as a whole by any means, but I'm convinced Germans make up their grammar as they go along.

Also to Mordor:
weighing 60lbs more than you're supposed to, waking up at 4 am every day, heartburn, having blood drawn all the time, and other 3rd trimester fun....
Oh I can sympathise with that one. I wasn't one of these floaty yoga mums playing whale song to the 'bump', I was more the sort who sat in a flustered heap on the sofa going "Bring me more crunchy nut cornflakes and quickly!"
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Old 09-29-2008, 07:25 AM   #4
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floaty yoga mums playing whale song to the 'bump'
I feel like I should probably be able to sing the whale song myself.

*struggles to get off the beach... er, out of her chair*

Hmm... crunchy nut cornflakes. I wonder if we have those here -
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Old 09-29-2008, 12:35 PM   #5
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Double posting in this thread is sad, I know, but I have to assign the professor who told us three weeks ago we needed to write three responses to each "work" by today, and only clarified yesterday that, in his version of the English language, "work" means chapter, not book.


*types frantically*
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Old 09-29-2008, 01:38 PM   #6
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I feel like I should probably be able to sing the whale song myself.

*struggles to get off the beach... er, out of her chair*

Hmm... crunchy nut cornflakes. I wonder if we have those here -
Be warned, over consumption of crunchy nut cornflakes and ice cold milk (and probably also green tea, haribos and mango - I normally hate mango, why?) results in 11lb 4oz babies.
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Old 10-01-2008, 11:29 AM   #7
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Well, like I said, German grammar belongs to Mordor - or at least the cases do. Not the language as a whole by any means, but I'm convinced Germans make up their grammar as they go along.
I don't yet assign German cases to Mordor, but I assign gender. Makes me go crazy and wish to whack my professor with a broken chair leg. Which reminds me, our final exam on my level-2 German is bis morgen früh... scary.

I assign to Mordor that librarian and the photocopier at the College of Music today, who refused to entertain me despite being first in line just because I come from the Arts and Letters, letting the students of CoM first just because they're wonderful performers or such... maybe I should suggest that in our library and photocopy center we ban altogether students from the CoM?
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Old 10-04-2008, 11:45 AM   #8
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I have a feeling I do this every year so sorry

Seasonal affective disorder... It is pouring with rain, I feel miserable, my bones ache, I am comfort eating and my hair is doing that scary curly thing it does in reaction to rainwater. Oh yes and I have just sighted the first mince pies of the season.

Please can I hibernate? Or emigrate... just to get away from the endless damp greyness of an English winter and shops starting Christmas on 1st October.
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Old 10-04-2008, 12:34 PM   #9
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Old 10-04-2008, 03:30 PM   #10
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Being constantly tired despite sleeping more than enough.

Cramps.

Mood swings.
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Being constantly tired despite sleeping more than enough.
I assign not being tired despite not sleeping enough, and consequently, being tired at the moments when it's not appropriate.
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Old 10-06-2008, 02:59 AM   #12
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Mood swings.
I have a horrible urge to post something like "Agan's mood swings" but that would be rather evil, wouldn't it? (Besides, assigning them to Mordor would be overreacting for my part...)

I would like to assign being increasingly slow in getting things done. It's both laziness and a sort of perfectionism - it's a dreadful combination, really.
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Old 10-06-2008, 03:10 AM   #13
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Being born a girl (well, just today, and maybe this time next month).

An exam on post-colonial critical theory on my birthday, precious!

Two big papers due the day after my birthday. My, I wish to be Gollum tomorrow and strangle my professors and hack their accounts so that I can just write a 1.0 on my transcript.

And the fact that I couldn't overdose on coffee because of my hyperacidity. Now, of all times that I need to stay awake despite the boringness of Edward Said! Oh, all of you off to Mordor!
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