My name is perfectly simple. Iffen you don't count my first name. Today's recruiter finally caved and asked where I was from. Unamerican, sweet lass, unamerican.

Apparently the consulting company she hooked me up with wants to submit my name not just to the client (interview within a week?) but to their business developers including furrin travel. Can you see me in Dubai? Need good migraine meds.

One thing being out of work this long has made me sure of--I am willing to work through the pain perhaps more than before, because I want to work so badly. Not just to earn money, but to be productive and not fucking be home.

Congrats, d!

My investigation into French tennis nomenclature continues. They say "partout" for the score in games, and for the tiebreak score, but "a" for the score in normal points. Still haven't heard what the French for set and match are.

I've been to Iowa many times and have found it to be pretty nice place. I like the cooler climate as well.

Of course, that was before it went all gay.

I do not stink.

A pie business would be grand. where's that lottery win?

Still haven't heard what the French for set and match are.

I kid you not, le set and le match.

I kid you not, le set and le match.

Lazy bastards! Explains why I haven't noticed, eh?

Thanks for the clarifications.

Paul's last name (the one I use here) was Texified sometime in the late 1800s. It had been Marcantal. That's like being Americanized, right?

Also, a lob is "un lob" and a slice is "un slice".

My name is boringly WASP ... and people still manage to misspell it. I work on the assumption you call people what they want to be called - within reason - and pronounce their names as much as possible as they want. And, yes, you spell it as they request (nods to ita).

ita, if you go to Dubai I want a full report. I have a weird fascination with Dubai.

::sticks tongue out at msbelle:: Getting all judgey on the furrin names.

ION - did I mention here that mac's bus company is claiming a check of mine bounced? I am arguing with them, even though my bank shows it cleared and I have my statement to show that not only did it not bounce, but I had a balance of almost ten times the check amount still in the bank. I have had to print out my bank statement, black out all account info on it, for the bank account as well as accounts of bills I pay. I also have a copy of the cancelled check showing two stamps on the back.

Something shady is going on and I am stuck because I have paid through the end of June with these people.