I got more back issues than Guns and Ammo,
cuz my uzi ways a ton and I never let go of the handle.
Update: in the interests of procrastinating doing my presentation slides, I've cleaned up my blog a little bit, including updating the titles of B & Doc's blogs, removing Chia Chia, who mysteriously evaporated into internet nothingness, and Big Bear Tim's blog... love ya buddy, but it's been 8 months since you updated, I think we have to admit it's over.
It's wild and crazy, the moon is out, tonight it's time for experiments...
Everything in the post that follows is based on actual events. Only the names, locations, and events have been changed.
Old news for some, but I just accidentally attempted to defraud my uni out of $1000. Almost got away with it too! Without me or them noticing!
(Aside: Can you be subconsciously deceitful? If someone has a subconscious intention, that just means they act in a way people would normally act if they had that intention, but without thinking the associated conscious thoughts. But deceit, if done well, is acting normally on the surface with dishonest thoughts and intentions, so subconscious deceit is just acting normally?)
Anyway, I finally got around to claiming the travel expenses for my convoluted journey from Australia to Sweden (remember all the visa troubles in London...).
I collected the receipts and summed their values, but I accidentally put in the receipts for my (personal) trip to new york to visit LB&Co. The department secretary noticed... I look surprised, which always looks fake when it's real... awkward moment as she held a private conversation with herself assessing my integrity...
I'm not worried though. Jo, one of London's best known criminal barristers*, has agreed to represent me. Quote from chat sarvo:
Corrections were made, we entered the values into the payroll system, and just before we hit "confirm" I realised the secretary had done it so the money would go to her and not me. Unintentionally... I think.... anyway, I'd say we're even.
*- best known to me. I mean, the barrister in London that I know best. Only other one being Will, who mostly represented sexual deviants, so I'll save him for another trial.
It's wild and crazy, the moon is out, tonight it's time for experiments...
Everything in the post that follows is based on actual events. Only the names, locations, and events have been changed.
* * *
Old news for some, but I just accidentally attempted to defraud my uni out of $1000. Almost got away with it too! Without me or them noticing!
(Aside: Can you be subconsciously deceitful? If someone has a subconscious intention, that just means they act in a way people would normally act if they had that intention, but without thinking the associated conscious thoughts. But deceit, if done well, is acting normally on the surface with dishonest thoughts and intentions, so subconscious deceit is just acting normally?)
Anyway, I finally got around to claiming the travel expenses for my convoluted journey from Australia to Sweden (remember all the visa troubles in London...).
I collected the receipts and summed their values, but I accidentally put in the receipts for my (personal) trip to new york to visit LB&Co. The department secretary noticed... I look surprised, which always looks fake when it's real... awkward moment as she held a private conversation with herself assessing my integrity...
I'm not worried though. Jo, one of London's best known criminal barristers*, has agreed to represent me. Quote from chat sarvo:
Ian says: So I might need some legal representation... are you up on Swedish fraud law?(I choose to interpret her failure to explicitly refuse as implicit agreement)
Jo says: Erm...
Corrections were made, we entered the values into the payroll system, and just before we hit "confirm" I realised the secretary had done it so the money would go to her and not me. Unintentionally... I think.... anyway, I'd say we're even.
*- best known to me. I mean, the barrister in London that I know best. Only other one being Will, who mostly represented sexual deviants, so I'll save him for another trial.
* * *
Speaking of deceit, that reminds me. On new years eve, at the big family bash we crashed, I was going up to random people doing the "Heeey, how are ya man, haven't seen in you in... shit, must be five years? Not since uni!!! I've been Australia last couple, what you been doin.." shtick.
Each time I got the nodding, smiling, going along with it punctuated by middle-distance-staring indicating memory cogs turning. Never did the fact that I obviously didn't speak a word of Norwegian tip anyone off that I was not actually their childhood friend...
True story.
Speaking of deceit, that reminds me. On new years eve, at the big family bash we crashed, I was going up to random people doing the "Heeey, how are ya man, haven't seen in you in... shit, must be five years? Not since uni!!! I've been Australia last couple, what you been doin.." shtick.
Each time I got the nodding, smiling, going along with it punctuated by middle-distance-staring indicating memory cogs turning. Never did the fact that I obviously didn't speak a word of Norwegian tip anyone off that I was not actually their childhood friend...
True story.
posted by I-Rock at 6:44 PM
4 Comments:
:-) Noice post I-rock.
Thanks K-Rock!
The frames on my glasses just broke, and a lens popped out. What better time than 2 days before I fly to oz, and one day before I have to give a presentation to my goup, and 5 minutes before I was about to start preparing the slides (honest!).
Some fancy gluework in the workshop has rendered them functional again - hopefully they stay together until I can get another pair...
wow - glued up broken glasses must make you a killer with the lay-dies.
xx
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