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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.

Date: 2010-12-03 03:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
NEAT. Like corn starch!

Date: 2010-12-03 03:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jonaht.livejournal.com
Wait..what? I don't get the connection.

Date: 2010-12-03 03:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
If you mix cornstarch and water you get a non-newtonian fluid like the polymerised silicon. Squeeze it and it hardens, release it and it's liquid again.

Date: 2010-12-03 03:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jonaht.livejournal.com
Ah, okay. Perhaps it would be cheaper to instead of buying the super outfit you can coat yourself with cornstarch every morning. This way when you get hungry you have a staple on hand..and foot and leg, etc, while getting protection.

*god, shoot me now*

Date: 2010-12-04 12:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sadams119.livejournal.com
ooh, yes, oobleck!

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