Dialogue de sourds

My post from Friday just showed up in my inbox, so here you go:


"Dialogue de sourds"

Today was riddled with conversations that bordered on the absurd. Most but not all involved the CAM and two transaction outlines on which she wanted L and I to work for her (never mind the fact that she is supposed to do that sort of work, because they're legal documents).

So both L and I each typed one out and gave it back to her. I put my work in the CAM's mailbox. Ten minutes later, this transpired:

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( No, really, it's in your box. )

Then a client came for a meeting. Mrs. Wing is, well, a very special lady. For one thing, she never speaks below a very shrill yell. This makes it very painful to speak to her. She also speaks no French whatsoever, and her English is limited (to put it politely). She and I routinely have conversations on the phone which make little sense to me and even less to her. To wit:

( English no worky. )

( Then she came in person )

So, yeah. This is how my day has been going.

So much fun, so little time...

Band practice went well yesterday. No massive high like last week, when we kicked the butt of the intro to "Enter Sandman," but we got a lot of work done anyway. Re-visited songs we hadn't played in well over a month, and they went pretty well, all things told. ai731's new guitar sounds very very sweet on certain songs, and definitely gives a new feel to the music.

We are teh awesome.

I want to get myself some new drumsticks. The ones I have are okay, but after trying some of gmarc's, I have been converted. :)

Canada Day went by in a blur, between miseri's housewarming and owldaughter's concert. The housewarming was quite a success: food and good people, and much shouting about well-loved topics (books, movies, gaming, politics, and weird pet antics). The concert went really well, though the crown prince got sick halfway through, which sucked both for him and HRH, and we got seated behind the Loud And Bouncy Family Of Doom, which made it very difficult to enjoy the music in full.

I discovered last year at luvenditti's birthday that I can no longer watch fireworks directly anymore. I keep having to look down every thirty seconds, or my eyes start streaming. I think it's definitely time to have my eyes checked for strain and to see if I need a new prescription.

I also had a very nice time with grrscary yesterday. Just about all our friends know each other, but she and I managed never to have a conversation in three years or so that we've been navigating the same social circle. I'm not sure how that happened, but we fixed it yesterday. We went to "Cha Noir" on Wellington, which is a nice little tea place I wish I'd known about when I lived two blocks away, then skedaddled downtown to watch Superman Returns. I think I loved the score of the movie more than anything else. I kept singing "Su-per-man!" in my head whenever the trumpets sounded. I love the new Superman. I am not going into squeeing fangirl mode over it the way I have over some movies, but I enjoyed it tremendously. They did a very good job with it.

We went for coffee again after and spent the next three and a half hours talking, mostly about gaming. 'Twas a very good time. I'm only sorry we didn't do this earlier.

Today, food shopping.