So I'm on hold with some travel agency, and the hold music is Enigma's "The Return to Innocence". Not a Muzakified version, either -- the whole Gregorian chants, dance beat, whispered "Sade, dis-moi" deal. This is... bizarre. I think we used this in a dance concert when I was in college.

Aren't those the lyrics to "Sadeness"?

Bizarre as hold music either way.

ouch. although, I make ld calls, but we don't type in codes.

I feel like, making the calls is just getting over, and whatever, we don't pay her enough. Putting in the code, for all she knows, our boss gets an itemized list of names and numbers (she doesn't, but still). First job, first job.

Oh lord. My work counterpart mentioned to me and our boss that she might have to wait at home for a delivery tomorrow or Wednesday and we got the following from the boss:

Just a recommendation to be here tomorrow if at all possible. You will learn more tomorrow AM. Sorry to sound ominous!

Cripes. Can I tell you how much I Don't Want to Know.

oy. Sunroof just fell off. Rassen frassen house. I had to climb up a rusty, rickety ladder to tape it back down. I'm not overly fearful of heights but that was NOT FUN. Plus now I'm pumped up with adrenaline and just want to calm down.

Cripes. Can I tell you how much I Don't Want to Know.

Oh jeez. Good luck.

Sunroof on a house? Where is that located--over the sunroom? I can only think of a car's sunroof.

I hope my maintenance guy has my HVAC unit reassembled and working by the time I get home tonight. When I left for work, he'd already been in my living room for an hour, completely befuddled by the noisy fan that was getting worse with each tweak he made. It was a new noise for him, which is never a good thing to hear from someone with as much experience on those units as he said he had.

He did say he would change the lightbulbs in my kitchen, so I'll have some wattage in there again--yay! I cleaned it up nicely before he showed up, so I'm stopping by the Jewels for some groceries and will do some cooking this week. (Still have to clean out the fridge tonight, though.)

Aren't those the lyrics to "Sadeness"?

Um... yes. What? I only know two songs by them, and I guess I thought I only knew one. Oops.

In re long distance calls - years ago the place I worked would hire the teenage children of staff people to work as, basically, temps over the summer. One, the daughter of a director, seemed to think that her mother's position and the fact that it was the office phone meant she could make unlimited ld calls ... and she did. Ran up several hundred dollars in ld charges ... which, because of her mother's position, they never had to pay back. Instead, the office imposed all kinds of restrictions and reporting requirements on staff making ld calls. sigh ....

Um... yes. What? I only know two songs by them, and I guess I thought I only knew one. Oops.

The two with French lyrics are Sadeness and Mea Culpa.

I use that song to remind myself that Sade is an exception to the "de" rule.


I also may have listened to way too much Enigma when that album came out.