I assume you did get it back eventually?

Oh, yeah! I get it sometimes with bad asthma attacks too.

ok, I am beyond angry. I sat at the midwife's office for 45 minutes this morning only to hear that she's not coming in today. But she will be there tomorrow. Except that I already took off today and I can't just waste leave hours because I need them formaternity leave. I'm so done with that place.

I dreamt that I randomly met Norah's Tom at some function or other, and rather than being very shy and unchatty (er, as I sometimes find myself - I mean, it can go either way, but when I'm nervous I can either be excessively talky and confident-seeming, or excessively quiet, and weirdly both are perfectly sincere, because I am some kind of shy/confident freakazoid) we nattered away with the banter and the bon mots (which apparently I can't spell), and I remember thinking "Yay! My social skills, let me show them to you!" in a pleasantly surprised sort of way.

Heh. Tom is very much on the shy/unchatty/excessively quiet side of things. But if he's given conversation opportunity (and beer) chances are he can warm up to it. Takes a while though, so he generally does not get into conversations with other shy folks. So much silence!

t is psyched to be one degree from Faye's dreams

Morning all! This afternoon I leave for Maryland for funereal activities. I slept poorly last night and had nervous stomach ache/mild nausea. Bleh.

Oh, Stephanie, that is ridiculous! I'm so sorry.

Also, unrelated, did you get my e-mail yesterday?

Yes, I did see it. Planner that I am, I always think buying early is good, but, I have no experience in this area. The flight is only 40 minutes or so. I'll check out the website when I have better Internet acccess.

(I'm at the body shop. Again. But supposedly for 30 minutes only. We will see.)

Tom is very much on the shy/unchatty/excessively quiet side of things. But if he's given conversation opportunity (and beer) chances are he can warm up to it. Takes a while though, so he generally does not get into conversations with other shy folks.

But you bring out his chatty side when you're a part of the conversation. At least, that was my experience when we hung out at my brother's restaurant.

ION, the return of cold, dry weather combined with The World's Hottest Apartment(TM) has whammied my sinuses horribly. Fortunately I move 3 days from today. (Er, to a house that is not hot, but which has pets. So my sinuses will have a whole new fun thing to deal with.)

But you bring out his chatty side when you're a part of the conversation. At least, that was my experience when we hung out at my brother's restaurant.

Man, that was good times. Let's do that again soon!

How's packing, Tep? How's the ankle?

Tom is very much on the shy/unchatty/excessively quiet side of things. But if he's given conversation opportunity (and beer) chances are he can warm up to it. Takes a while though, so he generally does not get into conversations with other shy folks. So much silence!

Huh. That totally applies to this Tom as well....

Well, I've learned how to make conversation with strangers even when my shyness doesn't want me to. But it takes effort and some stress, so I only do it when it seems worth the effort.

Ok. I've re-written my reflection on class yesterday. Could you guys take a look and make comments (either here or in my LJ)? It's currently unlocked and can be found here: [link]

You know, I do miss Tom and the sideways commentary.

Pardon the length, but I'm about to get all ranty:

Is it just the Yankee in me that gets fed up with rambling talky meat at meetings? I went to an organizing meeting yesterday, and we got through a whole bunch of stuff (with some rambling distractions, but none too long) and had ONE form left to get through, when the whole thing went off track. The organizer doesn't have a very strong personality, and the three other people there were all interested in the chat, but I was fuming. Seriously, it's 8:45, I haven't been home yet, we have only one form to get through, and you've been talking about how unhelpful the organization of last year's cattle judging (or something) was for new members for 15 solid minutes. Under normal, chat-specific circumstances I would be interested, since I totally empathize with being thrown sink-or-swim into something that SHOULD be explainable, but in this case SHUT UP! Or at least wait until we're officially done with the meeting and I can leave politely. But they just kept talking.

Some of this, I'm sure, is a southern thing (or, if you like, my impatience is a northern thing). I've noticed on many an occasion some of my co-workers repeat themselves a lot, and conversations in meetings often go like this:

A: What should we do about this? Because it's been a problem in [example] way.

B: Well, that is something to worry about, and here are a couple things we're doing about it.

A: Because here's another example of it being a problem.

B: Yeah, that is a problem.

A: And also, here's another example.

But this was just... honestly, it felt really rude, since it continued even after the organizer had said (twice, I think!) that we just had one more form to get through and that she and I were both tired. I was so damn mad. Especially since it made me not get enough sleep for the third night in a row (granted, the other two were my own fault). Argh!

Maybe I was just born with a sad lack of patience.