Ah crap #2 (or, it's now been 5 years)

[clappamungus]

My Extension of Candidature form is due tomorrow. I got it in November and of course I did nothing about it until...actually, I still haven't done anything about it. Instead I've been looking at eBay all day.

Anyone know of a good excuse for a late submission? Help me here, people!

In other news, Mudvayne stinks.

EDIT OK, I was wrong. Even Mudvayne is better than the B-52's Love Shack. Oh Christ, and Creed. I will now curl into a foetal ball under the desk.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/squirrel_girl_/]

5 years!!! At that rate I expect you're working on a cure for cancer...

As far as good excuses go, the dog ate my research never fails :)

[clappamungus.livejournal.com]

Um, I can think of a few cases where that excuse blows. OK, no I can't, but it's still a shit excuse.

[http://users.livejournal.com/squirrel_girl_/]

Right, okay, so it's a guide dog and you had it in the lab because you were doing animal testing. You're trying to make a special kind of dog food that increases the dog's ability to see in the dark. This is very important for when blind people need to go to the toilet in the middle of the night, but the guide dogs can't see their way to the toilet and they keep tripping over the ottoman in the living room. Also the hat rack in the hall. So mankind needs this special kind of dog food to improve the lives of poor little sight-impaired people and labrador puppies all over the world. Only you can't hand in the extension form/your PhD thesis/insert here because the dog liked the new dog food so much that he ate it. Then he decided to eat the extension form. Then he pooped it all out in the corner, and all that's left is a teeny little corner of paper.

But on the plus side, the dog food tastes good!

[insomnius.livejournal.com]

I can beat that ... I'm listening to some kind of hip-hop pop rap abomination while on hold with AAPT.

Aaaaaaargh.

[clappamungus.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the Beastie Boys to me. Apologies if you're a fan...

[insomnius.livejournal.com]

It wasn't the Beastie Boys. I'm not a fan, but I would have recognised them. This was more ... R&B. *shudder*

[http://users.livejournal.com/rin_tin_tin_/]

You got lost. In the jungle. And you had to eat the extension form to survive. You had the form with in you in the jungle because you're incredibly dedicated and you weren't going to let a minor jungle from hell stop you from submitting it. But when it came to certain death, or a late submissions form, you had to choose life, because you can't submit a form once your dead, and your supervisor people are so lovely, they'll understand you needed to survive.
However, you were rescued five minutes after eating the form, so it was all for naught. Now, you need counselling to recover from your trauma, and to ease your guilt about eating the form (OH! If I could have just held on for FIVE MORE MINUTES! He would still be with us now... *trails off into sobs*) so you're going to have to get an extra extension on top of that.

It's foolproof.

[clappamungus.livejournal.com]

I have said it before but it bears repeating. Your brain is an amazing, yet terrifying place. You should donate it to science when you shuffle off the mortal coil. It would keep scientists amused for days. And you also know that I mean all of that very affectionately. ;)