I was sabotaged!
Or rather, my social life and academic success were sabotaged when last week (the week before my exams at uni) I was mugged and had my wallet and phone stolen!

I took it like a good sport though, restraining my emotial responses to joking about it through my black eye and bruised jaw. But since the phone is on contract to a company who will remain nameless (or.. numberless! - hint) they, despite having frozen the SIM, are refusing to replace it, and their affiliated insurance chimps are refusing to replace the handset as I didn't report the crime to them within 24 hours - well I live virtually alone (no land line either) so I had no way of contacting them!

Still, just sounding off I suppose. Maybe it's a reflection of this multicommunicational modern society, about the reliance on permanent availability and constant conversation potential... Wasn't like this when I was young...
( Quiver Search for FATALISTS on Spotify, Amazon, Apple, &c, Fri 6 May 2005, 19:45, Reply)