Last week was a monster of a week. My plan is to just have it stricken from the record books as having never existed. First, it rained practically all week, so I was miserably tired and just could not stay awake…at all. I was a walking zombie, except much less fun than in a video game. It rained and rained and rained nonstop. Everyone but me was like, “Well we need the rain blah blah blah” or “Drought blah blah… Continue Reading
I’ll just come out and say that I’m not a big fan of footnotes. I groan every time I’m reading a book and I come across that little number at the end of a sentence. It means that I either have to disrupt my reading and look at the bottom of the page for the footnote, or I end up losing my place in the book entirely as I try to find that daggone note hidden somewhere in the pages… Continue Reading
/begin pet peeve rant I’m not super anal retentive about grammar. I understand that typos happen. I’m not even all that bothered by alternate spellings when it comes to “color” vs. “colour”. Despite having formally studied English in school, I’ve made plenty of errors in my time and continue to make them to this day…and even in this blog post. I ramble. I twist sentences around. I even dangle things from the end of them that just shouldn’t be dangled,… Continue Reading
I was messing around with my signatures in gmail and just started thinking about email in general. In Outlook there is this “feature” that I don’t use that will flag your outgoing messages with a “!“ that supposedly informs your recipients that your message is of the utmost importance and should be read and acted upon at once! Do a lot of people really think that adding that exclamation point actually works to make their email recipients leap out of… Continue Reading
The cube farm environment is already unpleasant enough with its ugly, drab walls and the steady, droning hum of incessant noise that sucks all the life out of people and turns them into brain-drained zombies, but at least once a week, something else happens. Someone answers a cell phone. No, I’m not talking about the people who are stuck in the cubes next to yours, and who are going about their daily activities, and happen to need to answer a phone because you and… Continue Reading