Ah, ringworm. Staple of my childhood.
Aaand I'm doing an emergency school run in the morning. I feel like being a good neighbor friend and the kids' education is more important than the 45 minutes I'll lose at work, especially under this contract.
Oh, I haven't mentioned today's employment adrenaline rush. When I get new email, I set up my notifications so that just the subject flashes in notification ghosty thing so I can decide whether to ignore or not. Today, "Sara's interview" flashed across! Except, it was for a different Sarah about ANOTHER Sara, but my CSWTFE's boss's mailtool accidentally picked the wrong Sara(h) alias in the address book. Which was clear reading the email, but I did have to tease the boss about it. (She'll also be applying for her own damn job as a branch mgr.)
Pfui on her, Susan.
Yeah, really. Especially since IME insofar as Europeans notice American regional accents, they just think they're interesting-sounding. I'd pretty much guarantee you that as long as the Southerner in question was a polite tourist, not a single Parisian was thinking, "Ew, why did they give that hick a passport?"
Ugh Susan, I know a lot of people who are prejudiced against Southern accents. Having called some of them out on it I can add that the explanations/justifications for the prejudice are... not helping.
Data point: from my years in NC and yes, MD, I tend to go southern drawl (indeterminate) when tired or angry. Combined both in Australia on multiple occasions, got several " I loooove your accent" from Australians and Belgians who had no idea the source.
I tend to go southern drawl (indeterminate) when tired or angry.
Me too. Tired, angry, or watching football.
Yeah, it's not uncommon to get ringworm from an animal.
Yeah, I was meaning to riff on their single-ness.
prefaced with "no offense,
Whenever someone says that to me, I just say, very pointedly "we'll see".
And this one jackhole once said, when he was done with his offensiveness, said "were you offended" and I replied "I don't know why you're pretending that you care; if you did, you wouldn't have said it in the first place."
Yeah, it's not uncommon to get ringworm from an animal.
Yeah, I was meaning to riff on their single-ness.
D'oh. That flew totally over my head. (Obviously.)
I am now imagining all the bitches (so to speak) in Steph's neighbourhood singing to their furry beaus "If you like it then you should have put a ring on it".
