why am you up at 4.45 in the morning?
i am trying to call harvard's admissions office.
why didn't you call at an earlier and far more sensible time?
they only take calls between 2-5pm
what is that in malay peninsular time?
3am-6am
oh..

i have waited up patiently with a book but eleven calls in the last hour and forty minutes have not got me through to anything more than an engaged tone, or, on the three occasions that the phone actually rang, more than an eventual disembodied machine voice asking me to try again because all their lines are busy... i wonder if i should just give it up and go to bed...i expect there is nothing wrong, and that the mail i have got telling me my application has not been submitted is merely a system error, because thursday last i had two confirmation emails aknowledging submission and then receipt. but von and su-lin say it sounds very dubious and why should i risk it? a call would put my mind at ease with certainty. a call would certainly do that if it wasn't making me get increasingly sleepy and annoyed...

why don't you try again tomorrow?
they're closed after today till jan 2nd.
couldn't you call them then?
that's the deadline
couldn't you have called them last week?
i only got the email today.
ah.