I stayed up until about 1:30 a.m. with the kitty because he was freaked out by all the illegal fireworks. And I am so damn tired now. He repaid me this morning by attacking my leg and trying to eat my oatmeal. He doesn't get the whole concept of gratitude.
People often pronounce "Fogelson" as "Ferguson," which who knows why.
It's that whole template thing, I'm telling ya! People just want to slot information into their expected categories.
My dad is the worst at this. There are so goddamn many words he mispronounces because they're similar to a word he already knows, and it drives me batshit crazy. For example, he has been taking Ambien for insomnia for years, and always pronounces it "ambience." Because he learned the word "ambience" first, and that's all his brain has room for in that word slot.
Maybe Nadine is more popular in other cultures?
I have known a couple of Caribbean Nadines, actually.
My favorite name thing, which I'm sure I've shared here before, is a woman who picked a last name out of her family tree when she wanted to get rid of her ex-husband's name but didn't want her birth name back. Eventually, her son changed his name to that, too! I feel bad for the genealogists of the future, though.
Also, I walked to work, as I normally do, and it was a HUGE MISTAKE. So, so sweaty. Even though it's "only" 84 right now, apparently.
Yeah, cooler here today but it's about a million percent humidity.
My last name is a weird spelling of a common word, so I always spell it out.
Unfortunately, my parking spot is half a mile from my office, so not walking is not an option. Boy, the AC feels good once I get here.
We had a storm go through here yesterday, so I was able to have the windows open overnight and air things out. Back up to the 90s today, though.
In my ongoing get-out-of-the-south job hunt, I ran across a position in Ontario. Which certainly qualifies. No idea how likely it is that they need an eLearning technologist badly enough to import one from another country. Maybe worth a shot? If any of our Canadianistas have done time in HR and would like to weigh in, that would be awesome.
I was just saying to a coworker, the upside of no (or inadequate) air-conditioning at home is that it makes going to to the office so appealing!
True. A big part of why I am actually at the office today.
Funny, I'm pretty sure when I left on Tuesday there was some stuff left undone that I was figuring I would get to today, but sure can't think of any of it now...
I feel like I heard somewhere about someone developing or testing silent fireworks - all light and no boom for less trauma. Can't remember anything about it though, so not sure it was real.
Aaaaaand remembered what I was working on on Tuesday. Do not want to work on it again, but I guess I will. And writing myself a note.
One of the nice things about dropping everything at work for a work emergency is that the everything looks so much more appealing when I come back to it. Hello, everything. The Assistant Director isn't looking over my shoulder while I deal with you. (I mean, she's perfectly nice, but still—AD.) Let me work on you in a calm, non-stressed manner.
