Speaking of pronunciation, we are having a pub quiz at our company meeting tomorrow. The tie-breaking question will involve either pronouncing or spelling my last name.

How do you say your last name? Is the last syllable in english or polish? If you know what I mean....

I left my cellphone (a $349.00 T-mobile wing with internet and email) in the bathroom in the lobby of the hospital at 6:30 this morning, I think. No one has turned it in. I am still here at work working, and I am quite upset. I know it is because I am so tired-- it isn't even theatre, I haven't even had a chance to go there, and I am going to end up doing all the sewing in the one day before tech.

I was going to come in late tomorrow and work at the theatre, but I am so tired I can't think of things I can leave for my student minion....

you've called the phone?

How do you say your last name? Is the last syllable in english or polish? If you know what I mean....

In the US, I say it Americanized. I wanted to switch at some point to the Polish pronunciation, but habit is a hard thing to break.

In France, people don't even blink, and pretty much everyone pronounces it in a consistent Frenchified Polish version.

Here, most people don't attempt it on sight. In airports, conferences, etc., I'm consistently interrupting the inevitable pause after the first syllable to say it myself.

ETA: Really, it's easier than it seems at first, being only 3 syllables.

Yup. It is out of battery (I have to charge it during the day or it will run out just from sitting). I left my name and office extension with security and I tried calling the visitor information desk by the bathroom I used, but they are closed now. I also went back to the bathroom. Aargh. So angry.

In the US, I say it Americanized. I wanted to switch at some point to the Polish pronunciation, but habit is a hard thing to break.

OK, then it doesn't seem overly complicated. My best friend growing up said her Polish last name in a Polish fashion (Americanized, I'm sure, but still), but her cousins said it straight English.

Ugh, Sophia, what a nightmare.

It is my own damn fault. That is just the last place I remember having it, and it is not in my purse, my desk, my pockets or my laptop bag. I am pretty sure I sat it on the tampon container thingie, but really it could be anywhere, even in my office. It is not a good time to be without a phone for me (this replaced my landline), so I think I am going to have to order the cheapest phone they have if it does not come back tomorrow, and downgrade my plan just so I can have a phone....

Sort of on the same subject, is there any sort of free software that I can put on my computer to be an alarm. I use my cell as my alarm and I have to by up by 4:15 am. I don't think I will wake without and alarm!

Sophia, Mac or Windows? I can't remember.