I'm sorry, but that image makes me laugh. I fell into a sofa the other day, but hardly ever onto the toilet.

I don't fall in in. I fall towards, when my quads relax.

So stop it.

Quick trivial first-world dilemma poll -- Hec is getting antsy about the trip to Vegas and wants me to get tickets now. Gambler!Phil gave us all his credit card info for ticket-getting... except, it turns out, the all-important phone number, without which we're SOL. Hec has already left to pick up Emmett (though I seriously doubt he has Phil's number anyway), and I sent an email to Phil but he hasn't responded.

Should I:

a. Keep waiting, and watch the ticket prices continue to go up and up, or

b. just go ahead and put them on one of my credit cards and eventually get paid back? (Which would anyhow save Phil the $100 extra it'll cost to have paper tickets mailed to us, which is the way we'd have to do it otherwise)

Too short to squat.

I wish I could just call my boss and tell her that I'll take the next 40 minutes Leave Without Pay. Seriously. I just want to go home and have a cuppa tea.

Sorry, JZ, that is exactly the kind of decision I hate making for myself.

If one is squatting, there is no reason not to lift the seat out of the potential pee zone.

Sorry, JZ, that is exactly the kind of decision I hate making for myself.

That's okay. You're not obliged to opine -- you already gave me positive reinforcement with the whole multiple-stabbing thing, and that's help enough.

If you've got the float, I vote B, JZ.

ita, you'll note that I said fall ON to the toilet. Not IN. I had the right image.

Yeah, I went for B. I didn't really trust Hec's ability to produce Phil's number, or Phil's ability to email me back in a timely fashion, and ticket prices to Vegas for the weekend we need have been going up practically every day since I first started checking last month.

Anyhow, I saved Phil practically $100 in paper-ticket fees, and we have our tickets, and I didn't stab anyone at work, hardly. It's been a great day!

Public toilets make me consider learning to pee standing up. It can be done, I'm just not ready for that learning curve.

I've cut down the phone-answering script at work to the bare minimum. I answer the phone with "[company], this is Elizabeth." (I put a little upswing lilt on the last syllable; it makes me sound approachable. There's a science to it, I tell you.) It's a direct line to my desk, and anyone calling that number is calling me, specifically, usually in response to a message I've sent them. That person is going to be an engineer, possibly a non-American, and probably a little uncomfortable already, and so they're going to ask to speak to Elizabeth [last name], no matter what I say, because that's the script they've rehearsed in their heads before they picked up the phone. So I keep the intro quick.

And, here's some mighty powerful cute, for those who haven't had enough cute today.

edited because I got the URL wrong.

I say " Center for Lifelong Leaning, this is **Real Name**" Boss says "Hello". When I answer Boss's phone,. I say "Boss's name's office, this is Real Name". It freaks me out that my boss says just Hello, as her number is on a lot of published materials for out office (we have a main telephone number identity problem)