From: datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild)
Subject: Re: From Russia with ...
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, Maidenhead, UK
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 09:55:48 GMT

rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
: In article <1992Jul20.152426.3953@bnr.uk> datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild) writes:
: >Angst, Angst, heartburn, stress......
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: >I met the woman of my dream    -  she went away though    - of course     ?
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: 
: god, i think this is the most angstful posting in months...
: this certainly sounds like true angst--desparate, never-ending, self-
: fulfilling, inundating.....angst!
: it makes my stomach twist just to contemplate the situation this guy is in..
: (note that i said _situation_, not nick himself).
: 
:  i have no advice to give. i think that would be patronizing...
: 
: just this: god, that sounds horrible. i cannot understand what you're going 
: through, but i get the idea. does it help to post it so everyone knows? (this
: is an honest question). do you feel better when people respond to your angst,
: or not? (i guess if not, i'm sorry).
: 
: ObAngst: #1) this angst is pathetic in comparison the the angst master quoted
: above..
: 	#2) I got a phone call from the learning disabled center counselor 
: this morning about a girl i failed last session. i was interrogated as to my
: reasons, almost ordered to change the grade "don't you know how _hard_ these 
: people try? shouldn't you give her a chance?" (i gave her a chance to do extra-
: credit, but she ignored it), and informed that prejudice against 'academically
: challenged' persons was illegal. i think these people should have to live up
: to the same standards as everyone else in college--otherwise, what's the value
: of the degree? but most people would call me an academic elitist...
: 
: bah.
: 
: 
: 
: 
: --
: 		-just give me what for,
: 	rachel perkins =  rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
:       "Chastity..the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions...."
: 					-Aldous Huxley

Hi Rachel  (Sepulchral tones)

Yes, it does help to post one's angsts.  To actally illuminate one's own devils
to bring out of the closet one's skeletons, to reveal in the light of day one's
failings is one small but vitally important step on the way to recovery.  Of
course, recovery is almost (Planck-like) impossible; recognising your own
problems is not solving them, but at least you can count them. (86, last count)

I 'phoned this woman last night, purely out of loneliness and desperation, (I 
had been sent her name by Dateline, two months ago, so I told myself she must 
have found a mate and be married by now), she answered, was still looking for 
an RP, and instead of the pathetic two minute conversation I have had with 
women in similar circumstances, we talked for two hours!  We are exchanging
photographs and letters now.....!  She lives in Wombledon, which isn't too 
far, either!  Of course, I have yet to tell her about the ex-wife and the four kids, the temporariness of my employment, my lack of car (very important to
women, I have found...No penis-no problem, no car-no date!)  Ah well, tomorrow
is another 86,400 seconds.

About your problem, my father is a teacher and he occasionally suffers from 
the same sort of thing.  So long as you are sure that you have given them an
equal opportunity, taking their disadvantage into account, it is unfair and 
immoral to 'help' them through their work.  If they miss opportunities then it
lies with them.  I am _sure_ you know this, but a little reassurance sometimes
helps.  I presume they can always retake the/a course, but I know less than
nothing about academia in your adopted country.  Isn't too hot to think 
straight, most of the time in Arizona?  Aren't you prohibited from topless
bathing, and aren't the speed limits 55mph?  That, I believe, is the limit of
my knowledge on your area.  I'm just an ignorant, socially damaged, Englishman.

Ah well, hell-bent on the rocket-to-nowhere, I take my leave....

"Smoke me a kipper I'll be back for breakfast!"  Rimmer, RD


Nick          DoD 1069

42 ?

"Just another brick (flying) in the wall"