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Thursday, January 06, 2005

Damned Insomnia...

Well its 7am as I write this and I have been up all night cleaning my flat. I am one of those unfortunate souls whose body clock runs to its own, inexplicable diurnal rythmn. Since it is one of my new years resolutions to get into work before midday on most days - after a good nights sleep - I am in the process of resetting my errant sleep patterns by staying awake for more than 24 hours. I will hopefully nod off tonight at about midnight, awaking tomorrow at the same time as everyone else in this time zone.... we shall see.

As you can probably guess I am not back at work yet. I have decided to take some much needed R&R over the christmas break. The only holiday I have had this year was a few days in Paris over the summer. Owing to my inherent inability to record important events such as conferences in my diary, I rather cleverly booked my summer holiday to take place at the same time as an important conference - one which I had not only agreed to go to, but had already written a bloody abstract for! In the words of the philosopher Homer "Doh!". Obviously, by the time I had realised my error, Expedia.co.uk had gotten their grubby little paws on my money and weren't about to give any back or let me change the dates. So not only did I have to miss 2 days in Paris, I also had to pay for a single return flight. Grrrr. Of course to add insult to injury I also missed an entire day sightseeing with a nasty bout of food poisoning. What's the matter with these bloody French - can't they cook properly?

Of course, the University is now officially open for business again - as witnessed by the torrent of undiluted crap that has poured into my email account since yesterday. On a cheerier note, I don't appear to have won any Dutch lotteries that I never entered nor do any illiterate Nigerians with the Capslock Key jammed on require my assistance (and a bank details) to help them embezzle hundreds of millions of dollars of international aid.

By the way, should you wish to respond to any of these begging letters in an appropriate manner (from a disposable email account of course - you don't want them to mark your normal account as "active" and flood you with porn), please feel free to use the following template:

DEAR FOOLISH WESTERNER,
MY NAME IS MR U. SUKA, AND I AM WRITING YOU BEHALF MY UNCLE THE LATE MR C. ROOK. I COME FROM A SMALL AFRICAN COUNTRY YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD OF, WHERE WE ARE VERY POOR AND CANNOT TYPE PROPER
ENGLISH OR LOWERCASE LETTERS. MY UNCLE WAS HEAD OF MINISTRY FOR TRAINSPOTTING, BUT BECAME HUNTED AND TORTURED MAN WHEN HE RAN UP US$2,000,000 IN UNPAID PARKING FINES AND CALLS TO BIG BROTHER VOTING LINE.
WHEN WE FLED COUNTRY HE DEPOSITIED AN IMPLAUSIBLY LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY, CONVENIENTLY IN US$, IN A SWISS BANK ACCOUNT. FOR CONVOLUTED AND UNLIKELY REASONS WE ARE UNABLE TO ACCESS THIS MONEY WITHOUT YOUR BANK DETAILS OR GULLIBILITY. I REALISE THAT ASKING YOU TO SEND US YOUR BANK DETAILS REQUIRES A GREAT AMOUNT OF TRUST, HOWEVER WE BELIEVE THAT YOUR FOOLISHNESS, GREED, DOWN-RIGHT STUPIDITY AND LACK OF INHIBITION ABOUT TAKING MONEY FROM POOR PEOPLE, MEANS THAT YOU WILL FALL FOR THIS PATENTLY OBVIOUS CON.

WE WOULD ASK YOU TO KEEP THIS SECRET AND NOT TO SEND IT ON, AS WE HAVE ALREADY SPAMMED 3/4 OF THE WORLD'S EMAIL ACCOUNTS, AND DO NOT WISH TO RAISE SUSPICIONS.

THE EXACT DETAILS HAVE NOT BEEN WORKED OUT BUT WE WILL EITHER: 1)DEPOSIT US$1,000,000 IN YOUR ACCOUNT FOR A PERIOD OF 1 WEEK, THEN REMOVE 90%, LEAVING BEHIND 10% FOR YOUR SERVICES.
OR
2)SIMPLY USE YOUR BANK DETAILS TO REMOVE ALL OF YOUR MONEY AND FUCK OFF LAUGHING AT YOUR STUPIDITY.
WE REQUIRE FROM YOU A FEW SIMPLE DETAILS.
1) YOUR BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS.
2) A SUPPLY OF SIGNED BLANK CHEQUES TO ALLOW US TO REMOVE THE MONEY FROM YOUR ACCOUNT.
3) YOUR CASH CARD AND PIN NUMBER.
4) THE KEYS TO YOUR HOUSE, THE BURGLAR ALARM CODE AND DETAILS OF THE WEEKS THAT YOU ARE AWAY ON HOLIDAY.
YOUR IMMEDIATE REPONSE WOULD BE MOST GRATIFYING SINCE WE DO NOT WANT YOU TO THINK TOO HARD ABOUT THIS OFFER AND ASK THE OPINION OF SOMEONE WITH COMMON-SENSE.
IN ADVANCE THANKING YOU FROM THE
BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS
MR U. SUKA.

Award-small

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