Randomness
May. 12th, 2004 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeQuote to remember from yesterday's good therapy: "Quand t'as le nez collé sur une situation, tu louches."
(Rough translation: "When you look at a situation from too close up, you go cross-eyed," the idea being to take a step back to gain some perspective)
Saw meds doc yesterday for a state of the union type of session, which went well. Another random moment in my life. See, we have this running joke since last September about how I need to get a Palm Pilot, because he has one and I'm always scribbling appointments in my little black book. Now, I lost my little black book a few weeks ago, and I thought I might have left it in his office, so here's how the conversation went.
Me: So, did I leave my little black appointment book here last time?
Meds Doc: No, I don't think you did, but if you did it's lost forever. (His office is a disaster area of papers and binders and books and samples. He's in the midst of moving.)
Me: *conversationally* Oh well. Guess I'll have to get a new one.
Him: *jokingly* You should get a Palm Pilot!
Me: *also jokingly* I can't even pay my rent!
Him: You know, they're not expensive these days.
Me: Are they less than four dollars? That's how much I pay for my little black books.
Him: ...
Me: *grins smugly*
Him: *Has apparent lightbulb moment and gets up and rummages in one of his cabinets. Produces Palm Pilot.* Here. I forgot that two years ago I changed my whole team's Palm Pilots. It's been sitting there unused for two years and it's just going to get tossed away when I move. It's a first-generation. Want it?
Me: *boggles. Blithers something incomprehensible but suitably grateful. Takes Palm Pilot home and coos over it for hours.*
So, yes. I now have a Palm Pilot. I'm still somewhat flummoxed. But at least now I won't be in as much danger of losing all my important stuff. :)
*dances a small jig*
(Rough translation: "When you look at a situation from too close up, you go cross-eyed," the idea being to take a step back to gain some perspective)
Saw meds doc yesterday for a state of the union type of session, which went well. Another random moment in my life. See, we have this running joke since last September about how I need to get a Palm Pilot, because he has one and I'm always scribbling appointments in my little black book. Now, I lost my little black book a few weeks ago, and I thought I might have left it in his office, so here's how the conversation went.
Me: So, did I leave my little black appointment book here last time?
Meds Doc: No, I don't think you did, but if you did it's lost forever. (His office is a disaster area of papers and binders and books and samples. He's in the midst of moving.)
Me: *conversationally* Oh well. Guess I'll have to get a new one.
Him: *jokingly* You should get a Palm Pilot!
Me: *also jokingly* I can't even pay my rent!
Him: You know, they're not expensive these days.
Me: Are they less than four dollars? That's how much I pay for my little black books.
Him: ...
Me: *grins smugly*
Him: *Has apparent lightbulb moment and gets up and rummages in one of his cabinets. Produces Palm Pilot.* Here. I forgot that two years ago I changed my whole team's Palm Pilots. It's been sitting there unused for two years and it's just going to get tossed away when I move. It's a first-generation. Want it?
Me: *boggles. Blithers something incomprehensible but suitably grateful. Takes Palm Pilot home and coos over it for hours.*
So, yes. I now have a Palm Pilot. I'm still somewhat flummoxed. But at least now I won't be in as much danger of losing all my important stuff. :)
*dances a small jig*
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Date: 2004-05-12 10:37 am (UTC)You do NOT want to know what I was thinking that said.
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Date: 2004-05-12 10:38 am (UTC)You're just the kind of person whose ear I want to lick, you know that? ;)
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Date: 2004-05-12 10:40 am (UTC)Hey, I'm with it.
(tu louches... I saw some horrific combination of "leeches" and "douches". Just to share some of this crap in my head with others.)
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Date: 2004-05-12 10:42 am (UTC)Luckily "leeches" in French is "sangsue" so it has nothing to do with the above sentence. :)
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Date: 2004-05-12 10:55 am (UTC)(I wonder why I keep thinking it's fluxxomed and not flummoxed. I'm not dyslexic... at least I don't think so.)
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Date: 2004-05-12 10:56 am (UTC)When Taz the new collie with a situation, you douche with leeches.
I can't breathe!! *falls over*
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Date: 2004-05-12 10:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-12 10:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-12 10:58 am (UTC)*bounces excitedly*
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Date: 2004-05-12 10:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-12 11:06 am (UTC)Sounds very cool.
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Date: 2004-05-12 11:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-12 11:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-12 11:09 am (UTC)I don't think I should push my luck. ;)
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Date: 2004-05-12 11:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-12 11:14 am (UTC)I suppose greed is a deadly sin too.
... but that's still no fun. :)
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Date: 2004-05-12 11:17 am (UTC)ZorkZorkZork.
It is very dark...
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Date: 2004-05-12 11:21 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-05-12 11:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-12 11:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-12 12:07 pm (UTC)That was really great of him to do that -- of course, for him, it was going to end up in the garbage so better if it gets used by someone instead. That's really very cool :)
- Karine
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Date: 2004-05-12 12:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-12 12:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-12 04:58 pm (UTC)"Sangsue"
Date: 2004-05-12 05:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-24 09:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-25 03:51 am (UTC)Canadian doctors. All good. ;)