Kaylee: Can I? Zoe: Sure. He's out, though. Kaylee: He did this for me, once.

'Safe'


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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.


Jesse - Oct 08, 2008 2:13:19 pm PDT #3455 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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....


Sophia Brooks - Oct 08, 2008 2:15:05 pm PDT #3456 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

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....


msbelle - Oct 08, 2008 2:18:24 pm PDT #3457 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

you've called the phone?


megan walker - Oct 08, 2008 2:19:50 pm PDT #3458 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

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.


Sophia Brooks - Oct 08, 2008 2:21:29 pm PDT #3459 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

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.


Jesse - Oct 08, 2008 2:23:42 pm PDT #3460 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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.


Jesse - Oct 08, 2008 2:24:48 pm PDT #3461 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ugh, Sophia, what a nightmare.


Sophia Brooks - Oct 08, 2008 2:29:56 pm PDT #3462 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

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....


Sophia Brooks - Oct 08, 2008 2:32:56 pm PDT #3463 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

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!


amych - Oct 08, 2008 2:46:40 pm PDT #3464 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

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