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I accidentally embarrassed a coworker yesterday. I'd seen him at the Pedalpalooza dance party (we were both fully dressed at the time) and asked if he was doing the ride, and he wasn't sure. He's a social worker who works primarily with veterans, and he's always in button-down shirts and neatly dressed, and unlike some of our other social workers and counselors, doesn't have visible tattoos or anything like that. So, yeah: maybe not conservative, but not outlandish either, which is why I thought it was so funny to run into him there.

I was having so much fun talking about the ride yesterday morning at work, that when he walks in, I ask him (in front of the front desk employees and some patients!) "Did you end up going on the ride?" He seemed startled that I would ask and laughed uncomfortably and said something about that not being a subject for work, or something like that, and went into his office.

Oh holy crap, I felt so bad. *lol* I wrote him an apologetic letter and stuck it in his inbox.

A few hours later I ran into him in the big counselors' office (aka the fishbowl) and he was the only one there. He thanked me for the letter and said, "Yeah, at first I was kinda embarrassed, but the more I thought about it, the more I was thinking; it's not like I did anything wrong, or that I'm ashamed of, so why should I feel embarrassed?"

As it turns out, not only did he go on the ride, but he'd become one of the people yelling "Woo! Take it off!!" to the people standing on the side of the road. It was a lot of fun and he can't wait for next year, either.

Ha ha ha.

Mmmm....coffee. I bought some French roast. I used to drink coffee about half and half with milk or soymilk. Now it's just enough soymilk to make it a drinkable temperature. What's funny to me is that darker coffee has less caffeine than light coffee. So this tastes stronger but isn't.

Oh, and: Allergies suck. Ugh. The cat has been in our bed a few times lately, but if I wash the sheets and hang them up, then they'll just get pollen in them instead! Grrr. Stupid broken dryer.

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1. I've gotten several calls (why always from other states? I mean, I know that cell phones don't charge different for long distance, but so far the two calls have been from New York and New Mexico, from people who are actually in Oregon!) and several emails from the craigslist ads I responded to. Unfortunately, I can never keep track of which house is which. "This is the house near Alberta..." Dood. I emailed, like, six Alberta houses. And I have no idea which one that is. *LOL* I should've included the craigslist ads in the original emails so I could keep track. Damn.

2. ourglasslake and I had lunch today at Backspace, and I had waaay too much coffee and I've been damn near vibrating. WOOO!!

3. Her brother sent her a link, which she sent to me, which I'm sharing with you, that's making fun of overused fonts. Yes, Comic Sans is Public Enemy #1. But there's others, and they're damn funny.

The blurb for "Papyrus" includes, in its list of "common abusers:" "College-aged guys who want a font that's not boring but also not, you know, all gay and cursive and shit."

*lmao*

4. I have to put some charts away, leave work on time, go to People's and buy shit, make dinner, and clean up. Somewhere in there I need to call that house in NE and tell them there's no way in hell I'm going to make it over there tonight because, um, it's my night to make dinner, which I forgot. Oops. And then call the other house back that wants to meet up with me tonight or tomorrow. I'm thinking tomorrow. Oy!! I got an email back from one place where they asked a random variety of questions. I think I'm not going to get that house, though; because one of the questions was "How well do you know the Alberta area?" and I had to be honest and say "I don't yet" and another question was "How clean are you? Be honest." I tried to be honest while still making myself sound good. That's not easy, because left to my own devices, I'm a damn slob. Eeep.

5. I'm TOO MUCH COFFEE WOMAN!! Bwah ha ha.