Apparently, if something you order online is:

"Lost by Royal Mail",

that actually means:

"Royal Mail accidentally forwarded your package to your alternate address, even though the redirection service you ordered ended two weeks before the package was shipped".

This can have a strange and interesting plant consequence: a replacement shipment can be sent ( Read more... )

I know I've complained about this before, but seriously! What kind of people think it's in any way acceptable to throw a massive, loud flat party on a wednesday night without letting the people living in the flat know about the event?
I need sleep, not walls that shake to the beat of nonsensical chav-trance.

If I ever do take over the world, there ( Read more... )

Travel

For those who don't know: eruditionfish is my creative writing journal.

I just cooked myself a proper dinner (meaning more than a ready-meal, simple pasta or frozen pizza) for the first time in weeks. Possibly the first time this semester ( Read more... )

I am very, very confused.

2008! Presidential election! I'm 19 years old, and I get to vote!
Except no one told me that the registering-to-vote process has to be done on paper (by mail), and that I had to register within 30 days of the election...

I guess, at the very least, if "my" candidate wins and turn out to be a complete ditz, I can say I didn't vote for him.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Now, just after sundown, when all my work was over, and I was on my way to my ( Read more... )

The candidate's work has been re-marked by a senior examiner. The re-mark has resulted in a grade change.

Beautiful sentence, isn't it?
I have 42 points!

I love my froggie. She's super-sweet!

-Happy-

Seeing as I'm moving to Edinburgh this fall to start university, I have a question for any of you who live, or have lived, in the UK:

Do you have any recommendations, hints, tips or general guidance as to selecting a mobile phone plan? I've been looking over some of them, but since I'm not familiar with the general price level of the UK, I find it ( Read more... )