Well, well, well. CNN is saying Michael "Drownie" Brown has resigned as FEMA director. Can't say we didn't see that coming.
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Cashmere - Sep 12, 2005 10:02:16 am PDT #6731 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
tommyrot - Sep 12, 2005 10:04:27 am PDT #6732 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Too bad they didn't fire him... but this is almost as good. (And I'm sure he had no choice....)
Connie Neil - Sep 12, 2005 10:04:32 am PDT #6733 of 10002
brillig
I don't have phone fear if I am calling for someone else or on business, for some reason
I wish I had this. Whenever I have to call someone on business, I have to psych myself up for it, even if they're expecting the call. Some of it is being afraid of sounding like a dork.
I remember once when I was doing cold calling that I had to hang up immediately, because the recipient was a mildly peeved Englishman, and the sound of a sexy, snarky British voice made my brain lock up.
Betsy HP - Sep 12, 2005 10:09:38 am PDT #6734 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Michael Brown's going to spend more time with his family: [link]
Emily - Sep 12, 2005 10:09:42 am PDT #6735 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
the sound of a sexy, snarky British voice made my brain lock up.
They could just take the country right back if they simply exploited this fact, couldn't they?
askye - Sep 12, 2005 10:12:03 am PDT #6736 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
I'm not really afraid of the phone.
That first job at the sandwich shop I was given the job of making collection calls for bad checks. I was the youngest and least experienced and I had to call people up and threaten them.
This actually served me well when I worked at the land surveryor's and had to threaten people with liens and other nastiness if they didn't pay up.
Jessica - Sep 12, 2005 10:16:04 am PDT #6737 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I don't have phone fear so much as phone white-hot-loathing. I can count the number of people with whom I can easily talk on the phone on one hand, and I'm related to all of them.
Jars - Sep 12, 2005 10:18:02 am PDT #6738 of 10002
If I have to call someone I don't know, especially about anything even vaguely bureaucratic, I write down what I'm going to say before I call.
ChiKat - Sep 12, 2005 10:19:08 am PDT #6739 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I've had a ton of jobs, mostly because I temped my way through college/grad school/shortly after grad school. Some of my non-temp jobs:
RA
Residence Hall Director
Maintenance Sec'y
Assist. Theatre Mgr/House Mgr.
Retail (Lane Bryant mostly, also Michael's)
Sec'y for Industrial Real Estate brokers
Reservations agent for a hotel chain
Substitute Teacher
Some of my temp jobs:
Folding turtlenecks at a dept. store during a sale
Checking in better bags and putting security tags on them at a dept. store
Answering phones at a jewelry store
Clowning for the grand opening of a drug store
All kinds of office work
Inventory at a fasteners place (I counted a shitload of bolts)
P.M. Marc - Sep 12, 2005 10:20:39 am PDT #6740 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I don't have phone fear so much as phone white-hot-loathing. I can count the number of people with whom I can easily talk on the phone on one hand, and I'm related to all of them.
Jess is me.