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A Seriously Great Loss

Posted by Hayley Harisse on Tuesday, September 1, 2009,
Earlier this morning (or maybe last night, it was night when I started writing the previous post), I dropped my mp3 player. I've done it loads of times, and it's always survived before now, but now it can't load anything at all, and it ticks occasionally like it's trying to. I've tried resetting it, and the resetting part worked, but it doesn't get past telling me what kind of mp3 player it is. Eventually it comes to this "Recovery Mode" menu, with the choices of "Clean Up" "Format All" "Rel...
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Pseudonym Within A Pseudonym

Posted by Hayle Harisse on Wednesday, June 17, 2009,
(Strictly speaking, it's not a pseudonym within a pseudonym, it's more like a slightly false identity within a temporarily false identity. Kind of).

For the sake of expanding my temporarily false world, I now have an LJ! Through fear of people I know in real life discovering me there, I am pretending to be living in America (but still English! That way I have an excuse for the spellings), and only mentioning half of the music I like. I'm also not going to talk about any real life events of fam...
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I Hate Connexions

Posted by Richard Artwright on Tuesday, March 10, 2009,
I was woken up this morning by a call from Connexions (at about 11am, though). They want me to go to the job centre in the morning on a Monday or a Tuesday (great idea telling me that Tuesday). What they want to do is find out what sort of jobs I'd want. I'm not going to go, whether it might help or not.
I don't care if they've actually managed to help people before. I don't want their help. I do my own thing. I'll run to them if I ever start struggling to cope without money.
I know, I know, I ...
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