Sam's Backup Page ([personal profile] cblj_backup) wrote2010-12-02 06:02 pm

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Today I am the most misunderstood person on the internet. Not in any kind of sad, emo way, it hasn't been a bad day exactly. It's just that I am literally not making myself understood. I am cross-communicating with a vengeance. ENGLISH, WHY HAVE YOU ABANDONED ME.

We got three calls today from people wanting to talk to "the person in charge of fundraising". We are a business in charge of fundraising, but it's very difficult to make people understand this. We don't need to sell chocolates, sir or madam, we're a little beyond that now. No, there's nobody in charge of fundraising, or rather in a limited way everyone here is.

I had to explain our new security system to someone, again, but after 300 repetitions of this explanation, TODAY I effed it up.

I have three different web browsers, but only one of them currently functions well enough for me to order dinner. And it's Internet Explorer.

And then there was this thing with a man looking for a dentist, except I don't speak Arabic so it took us a while to establish that he was not in the dentist's office. (We did establish that he was from Egypt before we established that he was in search of a dentist. I googled one for him.)

I wrote the above while recovering from dinner, and then I looked down at my foot, which was tingling, and discovered that at some point during the meal I had ripped a three-inch gash in the side of my left foot. So now I'm not even communicating with my own nerve endings.

I don't have band-aids long enough for this, but I do have superglue!

Guys, don't let me glue my foot into a sock. That would just be embarrassing.

[identity profile] mrsalemp.livejournal.com 2010-12-03 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
We can buy Liquid Bandage. I don't know if it's as strong as what the hospitals have, but it's more than enough to cause embarrassing glue mishaps.

[identity profile] martinius.livejournal.com 2010-12-03 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Apparently a surgeon at the ER I used to work once managed to glue his finger to a little boy's forehead...

[identity profile] mrsalemp.livejournal.com 2010-12-03 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
must not laugh. must not laugh. must not laugh.

[identity profile] sirlig.livejournal.com 2010-12-06 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
*is laughing, helplessly*

How did he get the finger off?!