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This Term’s Amusing Irony:

 

The necessity of hacking through even more red tape to reassure the study abroad people that being on antidepressants doesn’t mean I’m going to go batty while off in Africa may, in point of fact, be driving me completely insane.

 

(We can only hope this doesn’t graduate to Amusing Irony Phase 2: My history of depression ultimately leads to my not making it into the program if I fail to slice all the extra red tape, which depresses the hell out of me.)

Comments

[viizou.livejournal.com]

I experienced a (distantly) similar Circle of Irony last night: I was so exhausted that I kept having giggle fits everytime anything popped into my head, which kept me from falling asleep, which only increased my exhaustion.

As one who has cut through a lot of red tape in her life, all I can say is: persistence usually triumphs.

[kurupira.livejournal.com]

Going to Kenya was the most red-tapeful experience of my life. I made so many appeals to get credit for the semester, all ultimately unsuccessful, and it was in fact very depressing. The most ironic part of the experience for me was when my friend Danielle got permission from JHU to go and get credit in Kenya, because she's half-black and therefore would be "safer" than I would... even though she was doing a homestay in Nairobi, while I was on a campus protected by armed guards in rural Kimana. yeah. still haven't figured that one out.