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[cblj_backup]

Here are some things I did today:

-- Read the latest Chronicle of Philanthropy cover to cover
-- Distilled six articles into bullet points
-- Read two back issues of Chicago Magazine
-- Skimmed a forty-page report on giving techniques for two nonexistent bar graphs
-- Found substitute bar graphs
-- Tracked down five slackers and made them tell me what sandwiches they wanted
-- Placed a twenty-person catering order for Friday (flirted the caterer into agreeing to my chosen delivery slot)
-- Shepherded half my team to get their low-cost flu shots in the basement
-- Made a macro about search terms using a squirrel and spammed the team with it

I think I've either written or read all the words today. I mean, in what other job do you use the words "muffaletta", "injection", "boolean", and "philanthropy" all in the course of seven hours?

Don't get me wrong, I love my job, but I'm definitely earning my salary on days like today.

Comments

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

I am familiar with all of these words, but cannot give an offhand definition of 'muffaletta' - it's either a garment, a piece of furniture, or possibly some kind of military thing? I must go look this up!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I think you're thinking of mufti. :D And possibly tuffetts.

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

I think I was thinking of Terry Pratchett -- it certainly sounds like a General's name, so it should have a garment or a food named after it. :D

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

Muffalette = Discworld equivalent to Lafayette, yes? Born in the small Borogravian town of Aubergine, wounded in the Battle Of The Brandywine (a "foraging" raid gone awry when Zlobenian troopers turned up at the distillery), where he (or "he") was discovered by General Froc and promoted, yes?

I, uh. May have read Monstrous Regiment a few too many times. (But that's impossible!)