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[quislibet]

It's fingerless-glove day again here at the office. On the plus side, though, I needn't bother going all the way to the kitchenette to put my lunch in the refrigerator.

Got my first 419 scam-mail in French:

[...] Compte tenu du climat politique instable en Cote d´Ivoire , j'ai décidé de chercher un partenaire afin d'investir cette somme hors du continent dans des domaines rentables, c'est donc la raison pour laquelle je viens vers vous pour solliciter votre assistance et nous aider à investir dans votre pays. [...]

So that's cool. But the air temperature is cooler.

Comments

[exquiscadavre.livejournal.com]

I always treasure new innovations in 419 scams that reach me. I keep thinking when I have the time, I will invent some fantasy in return, and entertain a 419er for a while.

Re: Can I have another piece of coal, sir?

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Poor Wolfie has pipe-freezing problems! But you will not be surprised to hear that he's more worried about the folder he can't find.

Re: Where, oh where, could my folder be...

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Turns out it was a manila folder, not a blue one as he had been thinking, and it was in a briefcase, not a plastic bag. So all is well.

[gobetween.livejournal.com]

Are you usually on the grounds of BU? If so, we should lunch sometime!

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

An excellent plan! I'm here three days a week, in an ever-changing pattern, depending on whether *this* week I think long weekends or having two days at home back-to-back are beneficial to my dissertation-writing or else make me feel safe in goofing off for the first day or so.

But it's nice to have a flexible schedule.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Every now and then I will go and read websites where people have done just that, and I am amused.

[unsound.livejournal.com]

I haven't broken out the gloves yet, but I am wearing a hood. It's 63° in here.

[gobetween.livejournal.com]

Cool! I haven't figured out my schedule exactly yet since I have some time before being plagued with my discussions. We should reconvene after next week and form a plan:)

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[sogellag.livejournal.com]

Sorry for showing my ignorance, but what is 419 scam-mail?

Re: ?

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Those spam messages that say "DEAR FRIEND, I AM ROBERT MSEKE, A BARRISTER FROM NIGERIA REPRESENTING A TRAGIC WIDOW, AND IF YOU HELP ME TRANSFER $500,000,000 TO A BANK ACCOUNT IN YOUR COUNTRY YOU WILL GET 20%" and so on. "419," I am told, is the number of the law or section of the penal code or something in Nigeria that concerns such scams.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

63! A tropical paradise! I brought work with me last night so I could stay home today and enjoy such a temperature.

[unsound.livejournal.com]

That's what the thermostat in the other room says, as it cruelly defies our requests to produce any heat whatsoever. I think my actual office is a bit chillier, what with having a window and no radiators. You have to love BU- the AC breaks every summer, and the heat breaks every winter.

Your office has quite large windows, though, doesn't it?

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Nice big windows with broken panes and a bad seal around the edge. And yet bars, so I can't get out if there's a fire.

Re: Lunch

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

(Now that it is after that week and then some)

I work next on Friday, and then some days or other next week...

Re: Lunch

[gobetween.livejournal.com]

Friday might be a bit crazy for me. What are your Tuesday/ Thursdays like usually? I have a class from 1-2 MWF, cutting in to ideal lunch time (although not necessarily prohibiting it. A late lunch is European and sophisticated, no?). Next week?

Re: Lunch

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Thursday should be fine next week; Tuesday happens to be a little trickier (but isn't regularly). My schedule changes around a lot, but I can just say "I'm working on campus on Thursday" and so it shall be.

Re: Lunch

[gobetween.livejournal.com]

Groovy. I'm out of class-related stuff at noon on Thursdays, so anytime after that is grand.