I remember when you could tell by looking at someone -- if they were obviously foreign -- that they wouldn't speak good English. Now you can never tell.

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Wow....

Oh, and re: the ancestry? My people are good at throwing other people out of windows, bar fights, and just generally kicking the crap out of anyone who crosses them. I'm ready to join the Brute Squad. First target: GG's employers. Second: Tep's sort-of boss.

I'm ready to join the Brute Squad. First target: GG's employers. Second: Tep's sort-of boss.

awesome. on all three counts.

Brute Squad could be Buffista Academy PE requirement-fulfillment, to raise those plans up again.

I've had fat free half & half before. Once. By accident.

I've had fat free half & half before. Once. By accident.

This is me. In fact, I never would've even conceived of such a thing until I unpacked the grocery bag.

I remember when you could tell by looking at someone -- if they were obviously foreign -- that they wouldn't speak good English. Now you can never tell.

I've got to say, playing "tourist/not a tourist" in midtown is fun -- at a glance I try and decide if and what accent a person will have once I hear them speak.

I scheduled a couple appointments for noon today so that I would be away from my desk when part-time job starts calling right after the supposed end of my week. Because I am too stoopid to let it go to voicemail. This, my new strategy for not being all enraged with them and their mad ways.

... appointments being eyebrows and (for the first time in about a YEAR) manicure. Very business-oriented.

coffee: I ran this plan past one of my collaborators, who responded with:

"voicemail is your friend."

Me: "yes, but curiosity and impending sense of doom are my sisters."

Him: "Family doesn't always play nice."

Heh. Funny, sox.

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I saw that earlier, connie. It's a good one.

Barb! Just friended you on lj.