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[katharos]

I am back! At Uni! And I finally managed to get the internet in my room working. Turns out all I had to do was draw a pentagram around my computer, burn desert incense on the monitor, recite the Lord's Prayer backwards, circle widdershins, and hop up and down on one leg wearing a tutu. Oh, and disconnect the DSL cable and reconnect while the computer was on.

ISS people? While couldn't you have told me to so that the first four times I came bugging you? We'd both have been so much happier. *smiles through gritted teeth.*

In other news, I have discovered that Pterry fans can be identified through subliminal messaging. First night back, I went to get a burger from the burger bar to welcome myself back (Best thing that could be done to a cow ever) and started chatting to the guy behind the counter and catching up with what we'd been doing and where we'd been over the summer, which led to him admitting -

Him: My knowledge of geography is microscopically detailed within a ten mile radius and merely microscopic everywhere else.
Me: *narrow stare* Do you read Terry Pratchett?
Him: Yeah, I do.
Me: That was a quote...
Him: Sam Vimes!
Me: The Fifth Elephant!

...we did stop short of naming the page and line number, but we did stand there for ages trading trivia while a line built up behind me and the cook mocked us for our dorkitude.

Comments

[la-localfreak.livejournal.com]

*grins* welcome back. *glares jealously at your internet-filled-ness as my problem isn't to do with my computer or cable at all but is something to do with the wiring in the socket and the college is taking forever to send a little man out to fix it*

:)

[katharos-8.livejournal.com]

You too! *belatedly...* How is your internet doing now? WOuld you like a mallet with which to hit it?

[la-localfreak.livejournal.com]

I would indeed like a mallet...though I don't think my assassinating the college offices would help it might make me feel better :P lol. The internet in my room is still non-existant and no little electrician man has come yet

Are you settling in okay?

[katharos-8.livejournal.com]

I've mostly been too busy with Fresher's Fair to even think about settling in - with the result that I have somehow managed to without being aware of it.

Little electrician man maybe needs to have a taste of his own electricity, yes? Or should that be reserved for the ones In Charge?

[lizas-lines.livejournal.com]

*would like to mock you for your dorkitude but doesn't really want to insult herself* Welcome back.

Oh--in case you missed it, I finally fulfilled that challenge you left me :D http://lizas-lines.livejournal.com/21194.html

[katharos-8.livejournal.com]

That is the problem with most of my friends XD

*glee* Thank you! Oh, poor Kio! Out blased by both Soubi and<\i> Ritsuka!

[hoggege.livejournal.com]

You are the first Pterry fan I've met at uni! No one I've mentioned him to so far seems to have even heard of him!

[katharos-8.livejournal.com]

I know! We are so rare on the ground around here it should be criminal, especially in Lancaster, the birthplace of Ankh-Morpork. And especially when we are attending the Unseen University itself! I can take you to meet the Librarian, if you want.

[hoggege.livejournal.com]

We...what? I had no idea! Is the Librarian really here?

[katharos-8.livejournal.com]

Yep! But we call him Pete. He owns a science fiction and fantasy bookshop in town, and when you're in there you really feel like you're just about to fall into L-space!