A Mild Form of Insanity

[CdnReader]

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Pushing paper, filling out forms
Transcripts required -- orders placed
Photos needed -- "flash"
New printer -- "install"
Colour cartridge? Print photos?
I can do this :)

187 webpages open at once
(oh yes.... where was I again?)
Nine-page-long applications with 27 pages of
accompanying instructions
*aaarrggghhh*

Reading fine print till my eyes water
Processing information till my brain
suffers a state of cataleptic entropy,
and begins to collapse inward upon itself
*groan*

Selling myself to the world
in bits and pieces
Two-page statements designed to
emit tentacles, grasp the unwary professor
who unknowingly opens the next application,
not realizing that she's about to inhale a healthy dose of
"you-really-want-me-at-your-institution" fairy dust
which I've sprinkled all over the documents,
cackling psychotically as I stuff them all into an oversized envelope....
(same dust, slightly different variety --
"you-really-want-to-write-me-a-big-cheque"
-- sprinkled on scholarship applications)

But today
sitting cross-eyed behind this computer screen,
sometimes I think I've lost my mind....
Right, yes....I've probably absentmindedly slipped it
somewhere between the pages
of my life.

Oh yes, there it is.
Reinstall. Shall we continue?


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cdn/16aug07
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[firefangled]

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Pushing paper, filling out forms
Transcripts required -- orders placed
Photos needed -- "flash"
New printer -- "install"
Colour cartridge? Print photos?
I can do this :)

187 webpages open at once
(oh yes.... where was I again?)
Nine-page-long applications with 27 pages of
accompanying instructions
*aaarrggghhh*

Reading fine print till my eyes water
Processing information till my brain
suffers a state of cataleptic entropy,
and begins to collapse inward upon itself
*groan*

Selling myself to the world
in bits and pieces
Two-page statements designed to
emit tentacles, grasp the unwary professor
who unknowingly opens the next application,
not realizing that she's about to inhale a healthy dose of
"you-really-want-me-at-your-institution" fairy dust
which I've sprinkled all over the documents,
cackling psychotically as I stuff them all into an oversized envelope....
(same dust, slightly different variety --
"you-really-want-to-write-me-a-big-cheque"
-- sprinkled on scholarship applications)

But today
sitting cross-eyed behind this computer screen,
sometimes I think I've lost my mind....
Right, yes....I've probably absentmindedly slipped it
somewhere between the pages
of my life.

Oh yes, there it is.
Reinstall. Shall we continue?


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cdn/16aug07
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Cd,
Oh this so sounds like my work life. You captured the mechanical nature of it very well. I loved it.

[ampoule]

Good one Cdn. I know, to some extent, that form of insanity. Drives ya crazy doesn't it? LOL

[CdnReader]

Thanks so much, Firefangled. It has DEFINITELY been one of those weeks. Sigh.... :(

Amp, you know what Forrest said: "Crazy is as crazy does." Um.... erm.... or something like that.... :crash:

[PrinceMyshkin]

Well, the rest of this is merely gloriously funny and spontaneous-sounding but this


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sometimes I think I've lost my mind....
Right, yes....I've probably absentmindedly slipped it
somewhere between the pages
of my life.


is beautiful and brilliant!:flare: :flare: :thumbs_up :thumbs_up

[CdnReader]

Hehehe.... Thanks, Jer.... [oops! gotta go, the whitecoats got me surrounded]

[quasimodo1]

To CdnReader: I like your poem; it really is excellent. Fits avatar in a way. quasimodo1

[Granny5]

Cdn, I like this. Anyone who has applied to school or for a job will know what you mean!

[CdnReader]

Thank you very much, Quasi and Granny. I'm feeling a little more sane now. [Ooops....I better not say that too loud....the walls have ears, they tell me.] :lol:

[Sweets America]

Excellent poem, Cdn!!
The way you describe the actions, one after the other, is captivating. I felt it all while I was reading, I felt the anxiety and the rush.

[CdnReader]

Thank you, S. It was a great way to dump out all that crazy negative energy. :)