Three little episodes
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009My friend Zach moved from Seattle to Nashville this week; it’s great to have him here.
We hadn’t seen each other in almost 3 years until he arrived on my doorstep on Monday night. As I made dinner and we caught up, he told me that since the last time we saw each other, I’ve gotten sassier.
And here I was, thinking that I wasn’t accomplishing anything!
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Everyone knows that I pride myself on being an excellent speller. As much as I would deny it, I actually feel slightly superior when I witness someone’s spelling mistake.
Working in the realm of email, I witness people’s spelling mistakes all the time. The other day, I rolled my eyes when a woman wanted to “rescind” her email campaign – because hello, doesn’t she know how to spell “resend”?? I mean, duh.
I sent her back some very detailed instructions on how to resend her email.
And then, I was informed “rescind” is actually a word. It means to revoke, to undo what was done – in this case, to pull back the emails after they’ve been sent out (which is impossible, FYI – once you hit send, the deed is done – BE SURE, people!).
In any case, consider me humbled.
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I went to the Bluebird last night with the lovely Haley Shaw. Luke Laird sang a song called “People in Planes” – please go listen. I loved it – I think it’s brilliant. The second verse kills me.
