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Me: "RCMP-GRC Montréal, bonjour, good morning ( Read more... )

Me: "[RCMP radio identifer], go ahead ( Read more... )

I was just reading a post by bodhifox about people being nasty on the phone with him, and it occurs to me that everyone I know who works in a job that has them answering phones has stories about people who are horrible and rude and abusive. It seems that callers fall mainly into two categories: neutral and abusive. For every 100 callers, I'd say about ( Read more... )

I accidentally set my alarm a full hour earlier than I was supposed to this morning. So I thought I had overslept and kind of panicked, but then realized I could actually get an extra 30 minutes' sleep. That was nice ( Read more... )

( Nattering about failed relationships. Nothing to see here. )

I sometimes wonder if I didn't break somewhere along the way, in an undefinable fashion. Either that, or I've got the heart of a romantic with the brain of a pragmatist.

( This doesn't make sense, even to me. Feel free to skip. )

Either my skills at communicating with tact and sensitivity have taken an epic turn and are now composed of weapons-grade fail, or half of my friends/family/acquaintances are willfully misinterpreting things I say as slights/insults, or Mercury is retrograde. This has happened so many times over the last little while that it can no longer be ( Read more... )

So last week I said to BorderCrossing: "owldaughter's concert is next Saturday. Want to come?"

What she heard was: "I'm going to owldaughter's concert next Saturday. Want to get together before I go ( Read more... )

So George (aka Pukey) was just sick all over the floor, and Pan-Pan has decided that this is far superior to his own kibble. I should go in and break it up, but truthfully, it's making my stomach heave just thinking about it.

All right.

::: Three minutes later :::Okay. Bleah. All clean now ( Read more... )