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| Re: There's harrowing and harrowing [message #15566 is a reply to message #15545 ] |
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Why is it that everything always seems to happen at once like that?
It's as if someone somewhere says "right, lets see how much she can cope with today" and just chucks everything they can think of at you.
But at least all the deliveries seem to be things you WANT. And congrats on the quarter. And please may we have details about this potential Radio Three thing? Pretty please with a cherry on top?
*pokes the ME very hard for picking on Robin*
Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....
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| Re: There's harrowing and harrowing [message #15568 is a reply to message #15545 ] |
Thu, 30 April 2009 19:43 |
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Our dogs go NUTS at the meter-reading man. (Or - one is now past tense, and we are very sad.) He's worse than the UPS guy because he sneaks around, not even coming up to the door, just going out of sight where they can only bark. Tremendously. And throw themselves at the door. They're (/were) very suspicious...he was just BAD, very BAD.
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| Re: There's harrowing and harrowing [message #15578 is a reply to message #15545 ] |
Thu, 30 April 2009 22:14 |
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This post made me smile. Extroverts apparently smile and leap up with glee when the doorbell and phone ring. We confirmed introverts groan and scowl at these bells, wondering who dares to intrude and hoping that sufficient scowling will make whoever it is go away. I feel exactly the same way when either the doorbell or the phone rings.
And yes, 8:30 is WAY too early for either to ring. When I started work many long years ago, I came in for my first day at 8:30 thinking I'd come in early that day. I was shocked to find out that most people in the office started their day at 7 AM. I grew up with people who wouldn't consider starting their day before 9. My college didn't start classes before 9, except for a few at 8, and students groaned if they were assigned these classes. When I was a grad student and teaching assistant in Utah, I was shocked to find a few students who actually WANTED to be assigned to the early sections, but those were married students who had jobs. (Different part of the country, different culture.) But starting work at 7 AM? Unthinkable. I never got in before 9, and I'd never consider calling anyone in the business world before 9 no matter what, unless I knew the person well and knew it was that person's habit to come in before then; it just strikes me as poor etiquette.
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| Re: There's harrowing and harrowing [message #15582 is a reply to message #15545 ] |
Fri, 01 May 2009 05:55 |
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AJLR
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No, no, getting dressed was way too much effort.† So I decided to stumble downstairs and play with the hellhounds instead.
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I don't know what it is, but pootling around in a dressing-gown in the morning always seems wonderfully decadent, somehow. I like to imagine you and the hellhounds laying around in a comfortable warm heap, idling chewing on extremities. I hope the lousy ME left you that much comfort, at least.
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Fortunately this was one of the deliverymen I know–he’s been delivering packages to us since before we left the old house
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Very useful, isn't it, having people who accept one's little ways. Our postman is quite used to passing deliveries through the bedroom window...
My sympathies to both you and your meter reader though. One of our meters is in the garage...in the corner we avert our eyes from. 
...and YAY for Radio Three!
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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| Re: There's harrowing and harrowing [message #15591 is a reply to message #15582 ] |
Fri, 01 May 2009 16:56 |
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| AJLR wrote on Fri, 01 May 2009 10:55 |
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No, no, getting dressed was way too much effort.† So I decided to stumble downstairs and play with the hellhounds instead.
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I don't know what it is, but pootling around in a dressing-gown in the morning always seems wonderfully decadent, somehow. I like to imagine you and the hellhounds laying around in a comfortable warm heap, idling chewing on extremities. I hope the lousy ME left you that much comfort, at least.
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If anyone is interested, I now have this picture in my head of Robin chewing on the hellhounds' extremities......
Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....
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| Re: There's harrowing and harrowing [message #15606 is a reply to message #15582 ] |
Fri, 01 May 2009 19:31 |
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Robin
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| AJLR wrote on Fri, 01 May 2009 05:55 |
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No, no, getting dressed was way too much effort.† So I decided to stumble downstairs and play with the hellhounds instead.
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I don't know what it is, but pootling around in a dressing-gown in the morning always seems wonderfully decadent, somehow. I like to imagine you and the hellhounds laying around in a comfortable warm heap, idling chewing on extremities. I hope the lousy ME left you that much comfort, at least.
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Fortunately this was one of the deliverymen I know–he’s been delivering packages to us since before we left the old house
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Very useful, isn't it, having people who accept one's little ways. Our postman is quite used to passing deliveries through the bedroom window...
My sympathies to both you and your meter reader though. One of our meters is in the garage...in the corner we avert our eyes from. :)
...and YAY for Radio Three!
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'you and the hellhounds LYING . . . ' 'Laying' indeed! Wash your mouth out with soap/fingers off with caustic soda!!!! I agree about the dressing gown. Not so much about the chewing on extremities however.
Yes, regular deliverypersons to the cottage learn to look UP at the sound of the bedroom window opening. Oh, I'll be right down, I say, carefully draped in the curtain. :)
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| Re: There's harrowing and harrowing [message #15683 is a reply to message #15545 ] |
Sun, 03 May 2009 10:16 |
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i am not a morning person but i have to get up at 6 and in the summer one of my daughter's friends used to phone at 7.that didn't last to long when i told not to phone before 9.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: There's harrowing and harrowing [message #15688 is a reply to message #15669 ] |
Sun, 03 May 2009 13:19 |
judith
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Caller ID is a wonderful thing. So is the little switch on the side of the phone that shuts off the bell.
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