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Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a journalist who lives in Glasgow, Scotland. There are 1303 posts in the archives. You can subscribe to a feed. This post was made on November 17, 2003 and belongs in the misc. category. The previous post was Outfitters in a blur, and the next post is New Plan for Tramway.

Small World, Secret Admirer

So, it’s like this: my sister was at the hen night of a friend of ours, the lovely Siân, and it turns out that Siân’s next-​door neigh­bour Helen stud­ied at the RSAMD in Glas­gow. While she lived up here, Helen’s flat­mate would come home every fort­night clutch­ing a fresh copy of the Glas­gow Uni­ver­sity Guardian, and rave on for hours about one of the wannabe jour­nal­ists, about how funny he was, and how fab­u­lous. Appar­ently, she was really rather obsessed with this wannabe jour­nal­ist, to the extent that she planned to start writ­ing for the stu­dent paper so she could meet him, and woo him, and go out with him, and stuff.

I, dear reader, was that wannabe journalist.

It would be won­der­ful if I could tell you that this girl did indeed begin writ­ing for the Uni­ver­sity paper, and did indeed woo me, and that now we have two beau­ti­ful chil­dren with fan­ci­ful names like Ottoman and Lupe.

Unfor­tu­nately, she never both­ered. So we don’t.

Anyway, this post is a call to my secret admirer, whose name begins with the letter L. Do get in touch!

Posted at 2pm on 17/11/03 by Jack Mottram to the misc. category.
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  1. Are you using this organ to try and score again?

    Posted by Donny at 4pm on 19.11.03

  2. For sure. I thought that’s what weblogs were for.

    Although, on reflec­tion, accus­ing some­one of being an obses­sive stalker may not be the best way of going about it.

    Posted by Jack Mottram at 4pm on 20.11.03

  3. could it be a dream come true…

    Posted by Donna at 9pm on 20.11.03

  4. could it be a dream come true…

    Posted by Donna at 9pm on 20.11.03

  5. I’m just sur­prised you admit­ted to writ­ing for the Glas­gow Uni­ver­sity Guardian. Last time I picked up a copy I cringed at the sheer lack­lus­tre jour­nal­ism from real Guardian wannabes.

    Posted by Gary F at 8pm on 22.11.03

  6. It was much better in my day.

    Honest.

    Posted by Jack Mottram at 2am on 23.11.03

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