Sooooooo. Sleeeeeeepy. Want to crawl under my desk.

For some reason, "something is a privilege" and "only the privileged get something" didn't seem equivalent to me.

How do you read something being a privilege, then? At worst it seems like something you can't even earn, you just luck into. At best it's a reward.

Neither of which category the pursuit of good health should fall into.

omg, the stupid it burns (NOT mac related, for once in a long while)

we get a bill for "unreturned equipment"
our payables guy calls the vendor to pay it after my dept approves it, the vendor asks if we still have the equipment.
we tell him, no we do not have it.
he send another email asking when it was returned.
I just responded that it cannot be located, it was NEVER returned and that is why the invoice is for "unreturned equipment". I add that we have been discussing this with the vendor for several months and perhaps they should keep notes.

It's not quite a fail in customer service, if only because it's so damned amusing and the intent was good and well, the word was spelled correctly, even if it gives an altogether different tone to the message.

Barbara,

We are sorry to inform that we are currently out of stock of the 12 oz. Mango Lime. We can either hold your order pending production and ship your order complete, Approx. August 31st, or you can choose to substitute another product and your order will ship out today, August 24th. Please let us know as soon as possible which you prefer. Sorry for the incontinence and thank you for your order.

Elisa

Poor Elisa needs to invest in a thesaurus.

So is that what you need the Mango Lime for, Barb? Heh.

For some reason, "something is a privilege" and "only the privileged get something" didn't seem equivalent to me.

I don't see how else to read that. For a low bar to obtain a privilege, I can see how it wouldn't seem that way. The financial bar for health care is pretty high.

Of course, we kinda sorta treat it as a right already. An ER can't turn you away in a real emergency, but it is neither an efficient nor effective means of getting health care. (Well, it can be very effective in some cases, but not overall)

Dear Jackhole, agenda items were due last week. Do not email me today to get something on the agenda. Further, "new business" does not mean "shit I forgot to add to the agenda", it means items that have been selected for the agenda that had not been previously discussed.

No love,
me

I'm normally pretty sternly anti-violence, but in this case I'll join the kickline.

And from upthread, Typo, I don't mean "low rent Camille Paglia" in any way that's complimentary to Paglia. ITA with your assessment of her; I just think Wilson's writing for at least the past half-decade has been an even shabbier and more grating version of her, with almost the same level of pompous classical literature namedropping and an extra overlay of I'm-an-edgy-hipster.

She's almost not even the same person as the twentysomething Hunter S Thompson-worshiping weirdly compassionate girly punk playwright living in a North Beach loft and driving back to San Rafael on weekends to say hi to her folks that I remember from eons ago. They look similar, but that's about it.

Sorry for the incontinence and thank you for your order

Oh dear.