Absurdity

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In Germany, when you earn very little money and don't have a lot of capital (no more than six times the amount of savings that I have), you can get some money from the state to help you pay your rent. Nice, isn't it? Why am I not making use of this, you wonder?

Well: I'm too poor to qualify for that type of help. See, the support is only granted when you earn very little money - not when you earn *none*. When you earn nothing at all, the social services people will assume you must be hiding something from them, because, after all, nobody can *live* when they earn no money at all, right?

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Oh, hey:

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we really do need to talk on the phone sometime soon because I've kinda sorta pimped Redactica to the Museum of Communication here... obviously, pending your approval. So far, I've only talked about it a bit to my internship advisors. It's not like they'd be able to *show* it, anyway - they can't show stuff that's so, well, borderline-illegal. ;-) But it might be possible to exhibit the DVD covers as an example of fannish media production. Possiblymaybe.

Or we could go and print out a cover for The Phantom Edit, I suppose.

Or both. ;-)

(Well, to be honest, at the moment it's not even sure yet if we'll even do a part on fannish media production in the exhibition... but it looks at least marginally likely, so...)