Emily, I think you can reply to such a request with three words:

1) use
2) a
3) template

I mean, hello?

Ooh, kat -- that sounds good. Will definiately catch up on Everwood over the summer. Assuming that they show repeats.

So apparently, people from the other campus want to come here and schedule a meeting with three people on this campus (including me) who all work in different offices and have other work to do, in order to make sure our cover memos all look the same.

OMG, that's freaking classic. I have here on my desk a diagram of where the margins of my letter should be, including where the date and first line of the letter should fall. I didn't even need one meeting!

Getting your annual rainfall in the first two weeks of the year is going to mess with many places -- everything's relative.

Well, sure. But I still reserve the right to make fun of SoCalistas for whining about bad weather because of 10 rainy days. Paying serious attention to the larger implications (floods, mudslides, etc.) is different.

Yeah. I said, couldn't they just tell us what they'd like to do? But no, apparently they want to come here. I wonder who this is that's a) making such a big deal out of it and b) talking to my boss about it instead of me -- mind you, I'm only one of the three people that does it, so it's not exactly like they're skipping over me to get in trouble. Still. Freaky.

Where's my Calgon?

But I still reserve the right to make fun of SoCalistas for whining about bad weather because of 10 rainy days.

Sure. But as a midwesterner who grew up in the snowbelt, I reserve the right to make fun of folks in the northeast who bitch about snow or run to the grocery to stock up on toilet paper, bread and milk at the announcment of a storm.

Brenda-

I'm not really sure what your price-range/style preferences are, but this should be a good start: [link] You can further refine the search from there.

Where's my Calgon?

Likely stolen by those sneaky, small, and very relaxed Calgon gnomes.

But I still reserve the right to make fun of SoCalistas for whining about bad weather because of 10 rainy days.

But I'm whining about the implications. I'm whining about how it fucks with my day to day life by shifting traffic, making commutes dangerous, damages my property (and I don't even have structural damage, like Polgara, just leakage) ... I mean, I like rain. Well, I like it in Jamaica and New Orleans. NSM here. It's too disruptive.

But as a midwesterner who grew up in the snowbelt, I reserve the right to make fun of folks in the northeast who bitch about snow or run to the grocery to stock up on toilet paper, bread and milk at the announcment of a storm.

Heh.

More on Blockbuster fraud:

New Jersey has accused Blockbuster of perpetrating a fraud on its customers with its "no late fees" policy, saying that the video renter does not inform them of hidden charges. Under Blockbuster's policy, if customers do not return a video within one week after renting it, their credit card is charged the cost of buying the movie. Renters are then given one month in which to return the movie for a refund, less a $1.25 restocking fee. New Jersey Attorney General Peter C. Harvey said in a statement that customers are being ambushed by Blockbuster with the hidden charges. A spokesman for the company said that the customers are phoned after the one-week grace period and informed that they have been charged for the video. If they wish to return it for a refund and tell the customer representative that they were not aware of the restocking fee, it is waived the first time, the spokesman said.

But I still reserve the right to make fun of SoCalistas for whining about bad weather because of 10 rainy days.

We're in a desert. This has the sort of implications of a hurricane on the East Coast. Mudslides, people getting swept away in floods, there's a house in Silverlake about to collapse on stables full of horses while the owners try and get them out.

It's one thing to bitch about the rain in a, "gah this is gloomy and shitty" sort of way, but it's reached this sort of Edge of Disaster here, and now it just seems like the harbinger of fire which will kill people and destroy property, homes, lives in just a few months.

I may be oversensitive. I like thunderstorms and rain a whole lot, I love cool weather, but this is just nervous-making.

But as a midwesterner who grew up in the snowbelt, I reserve the right to make fun of folks in the northeast who bitch about snow or run to the grocery to stock up on toilet paper, bread and milk at the announcment of a storm.

Don't forget the bottled water!