...is that sometimes the werewolf mythos is so weird. I feel like I'm picking and choosing as I'm writing my Wolfgang story ( Read more... )

A few times in the past few days, I have seen people writing "peaked" when the proper word should have been "piqued." It bugged me because it's both wrong, and I had assumed the individuals writing these sentences knew better. Not quite.

So, here's my sharing moment, thanks to peak/peek/pique.

It is tempting to think that your attention might ( Read more... )

I got a call at work today from a salesman, and I am not much interested in him or his company. When he first came to sell me something, he totally rubbed me the wrong way. I explained it to a coworker (who also used to do my job in a paraprofessional capacity before I took it over) that the feeling was like being on a bad date. Doesn't make me ( Read more... )

About 35 minutes ago I received a sales call at work, a typical occurrence at my job, and the saleswoman opened up with "How are you?"

I hate that!

Look, you don't care, and don't pretend that you do!
More importantly, don't waste my time. Just get to the point of why you're calling ( Read more... )

I came across a list a moment ago about top ten girl bands in movies. I'm only a few into this list of 10 and most of these aren't bands at all. I get really irritated by the language imprecision with that. It's so pervasively common, too ( Read more... )

Two months ago I moved to the town where I've been working for the last three years. I spent so much time on the road driving, and now that I don't have to do that, my time is freed up for other things. I've since started taking bass lessons, this week I had a cooking lesson from a Cajun friend of mine, and I've made some new friends. Life is ( Read more... )