Aug. 19th, 2003

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I couldn't be happier today. Reason? I can now listen to internet radio at work.

I'm tuned to XFM, my favourite station.

I'm alone in my office room, as usual, so I decided to rearrange things. I pulled some cabinets from their places and moved them away from my desk (since I don't use them and don't like the look of them.)

I was disgusted to find old seeds and peanuts behind the cabinet. The seeds were so old they had turned a neon green. I won't even tell you of the pieces of hair.

I asked around the department if there is an available vacuum cleaner, just so I can finish this job with dignity, but nobody knows where it is.

We usually have cleaners come in to clean... but obviously they don't feel it's important to clean my office room.
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I've been receiving these phonecalls for the last few months... which are now beginning to intrigue me.

It started with this child (boy? girl? I can't tell) calling and asking for someone called Hala. At first I thought the child had said Hannah, because there was a PhD student who used to be in my room with that name. I would say that Hannah was away, if he/she wanted to leave a message. But one day the child said "no, not Hannah, Hala." So I said I was sorry but there was nobody here with that name.

Still, the phone calls kept coming. Sometimes I laughed in the face of the kid, at others I was really serious and told him/her that it should make a note that there was nobody here with that name. And I even got an adult calling me straight afterwards, asking for this Hala.

Finally, I asked the child who was Hala and what she did in King's College. The kid said that Hala was her/his mother and she worked here. I explained once again that there was nobody here with that name.

I thought I had heard the last of this kid... but he/she just called. So I said I would do a search in the net, and it's mothers name is Hala S***ol. Nobody came up in the school's directory.

I wonder if this mother is leading a double-life?

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