Yes, your eyes are not playing tricks on you. It is a new one. I'm assuming no one has the new Steelcase work area that is part desk and part treadmill so if you faint, you shouldn't be too injured. At first I thought that was a neat idea but then I got to thinking that I really don't want to hear someone huffing and puffing when I'm on the phone with them. "I'm on the treadmill." Yeah. Right.
I figured this entry is going to be 'free form' which means there is no topic, no intent to share a story (ok, there is one that I was thinking of today) and otherwise, a peek inside my head when it's not structured. Even I admit that that can be scary. As I once shared in a previous version of this blog, at a 7 Habits for Highly Effective People class (sidenote: Did you know that the numbers 1-9 should be spelled out while 10 and above should be numerical? I learned that recently and now it bugs me at how often that rule is broken...such as the name of the class and book. I guess Steven Covey is so highly effective that he can't bother himself with calling it The SEVEN Habits of Highly Effective People), we had to write anything we wanted for 5 minutes. I used that time to think about the salad and pizza lunch we were about to have and coming up with many different scenarios/game plans on what order to get everything or how I was going to carry everything. I should have saved it. It was a masterpiece. Now, on to the story that came to mind...
My class tonight is in the same room as one that I had a class in back in the winter of 2002. Whenever I leave at 9 pm, it's dark out and I always flashback to that time. Big A and I were on one of our hiatuses and I had a 'meet and greet' with a guy I met online at a nearby Starbucks after class. The windshield was a little frosty so I used the washers to help speed up the process. Bad move. That added about 10 minutes to my time. I don't remember why but I never saw that guy again after that but I learned never to wash a cold windshield. Big A had a class nearby the last couple of weeks so he had been dropping me off and then picking me up after. When I reflect on the winter of 2002 and now, I can't believe that was only five years ago.
I don't really have a great gym story to share other than I am now making a point to NOT match my handtowel to the shirt I'm wearing to work out. Coordinating the two would seem to be something that everyone should do but after all the comments I had received, I guess not. I have the same feeling as I did when Big A and I recently went to an IMAX movie. We had assigned seats...and we weren't sitting in them. That bothered me. A lot. But I still sat in someone's seat and I now bring a mismatched towel to blend in with the masses.
And lastly...
I paid off my student loans last month...or at least I thought I did until this past week when I received information from the US Department of Education saying that they received information that I have returned to school part time so my loan would be deferred. I was confused at how a loan that was paid off could be deferred so I called them. I still owe 57 cents. Even funnier than that, they don't cash checks for under a dollar. I begrudgingly wrote and sent in a check for $1 but I think it would have been funnier to defer a 57 cent loan.
7 comments:
I've heard of the spelling rule for numbers before but sometimes break it in the blogging world if one, it gets my blog title all on one line and two, I have to write the number many times and typing it gets repititious.
I would have deferred the 57 cents just for the irony of it.
Now I have to get back into my Steelcase work area that I fell out of when I saw you had finally posted!
I saw those new workstations-Steelcase has got to get something going to survive (this is Steelcase country over here and they have a huge idle plant near the GR airport. As for Covey, doesn't he have something to do with quails? I think I mentioned before that I once got to sit beside Steve on a podium... my claim to fame.
Ed - I gotta keep you on your toes somehow. Going 5 days seems to do the trick.
Sage - Two bald men sitting together under the glare of overhead lighting?!? My eyes hurt just at the thought of what the glare must've been like. :-)
Cheesy Ba$tard$! They could have found that amount walking around in the parking lot. You should have charged the 57cents, and made them pay the extra two bucks for credit card usage. Too bad you couldn't have the satisfaction of writing Fifty-Seven over One Hundred on the check. Bah! Oh, and I thought the 1-10 rule was only in AP style rather than Chicago or MLA. Like I pay attention to any style manual...
Funny... There were probably a few other bald men up there too. I wish I had the running commentary on his speech as given by the president of the faculty senate (who was seated next to me). She was funny. I can't remember if I was wearing a cap or not--probably not as we were indoors, but I do remember I was in full academic dress, including hood (That should give you an interesting visual)
A man from the South talking about wearing a hood gives me a bad visual indeed. ;-)
I can't even wrap my brain around the "You owe us $0.57 but we can't accept less than $1.00" thing. I'd have been sorely tempted to make sport of that, but it would have been at the expense of some poor soul who gets paid by the hour to answer the phone and deal with a$$holes like me.
I paid off my student loan while I was in the Army. As an active duty military person I wasn't required to pay off the loan--I could have deferred it, and this was during an era when people were defaulting on student loans at such a rate that it was making the evening news. I didn't even receive so much as a letter saying "Loan Paid Off". Nada. Zilch. The only thing I got was I didn't get a bill the next month.
Fanny Mae can, well...
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