Clear varnish for me, but if I am really feeling jazzy, silver-tipped.
I like stick-on falsies for fun occasions, the whackier the better, but they don't like me and keep jumping ship, I rarely get back home with a full set.
Molly, that used to bug me too, multiple requests. I usually changed the heading when I was replying so I knew which one I was replying to and didn't have a total email thread so enormous it eventually slowed the whole computer down
There are some colleagues cursed the other way, they'd be 'thanks for (a)' (well, sometimes they said thanks) 'you didn't reply yet about (b) or (c)' even though I had already said I'd reply to those separately ...
Do not miss those days at ALL. Now I get about 1 business email a week and leap on it with happy cries of money money money YAY
LM, glad to know I'm not the only one out of curiosity, do you find that there are more people around that don't respond, but do what you asked?
Every time someone has a whinge at her someone else, usually more senior, will jump in and support her, so she's not about to change. I did wonder if it was becoming a trend, the tutoring college I teach for send out dozens a day (deletedeletedeletedeleterecurring) and never expect a reply.
LaFonda and Red, the point is more that she simply doesn't see it as bad manners, she's not ignoring them, she did what was asked. No need to reply.
I have said more than once that I am old-fashioned, and I expect a response and she probably tells people her mum is soooo Stone Age. (DD stands for darling daughter) She does reply if she feels she has something to add to the conversation but otherwise I should understand that my message was received, appreciated, understood and she's not going to reply for the sake of replying.
There are many bloggers doing exactly the same, of course. Some don't respond at all, some cherrypick part of what you said and ignore the rest, and some reply at boring length (I know, I know, bite me) She'd say it proved her point.
Badly, oh that is a whole blog on its own. And a problem on its own. We should probably all lock our blogs when we are done with them because otherwise if someone comments on an older blog, there you are, on the horns of a dilemma. Respond to the comment someone has taken the trouble to make? Ignore if because otherwise it looks like you're commenting on your own blog to jump it up?
I didn't really mean to include mails on CS I don't feel I need to reply to a message which is obviously one-size-fits-all but when I do get messages that show someone actually read my profile, I do reply. Very unmodern of me, eh? They usually don't bother to reply. And even when they do, there are some wowzer strange people out there I was talking more about responding to colleagues, family, friends, that sort of real life stuff. But keep on truckin' babe, keep on truckin' your ship is coming in and at a guess she will be nothing at all like your usual type!
But it is because some, at least, parents, will react exactly as you did, DR, that I can see why the vicar would have clashed with the school. People are entitled to their opinions at a distance, but this kind of debate happening all round the school, "my mom thinks you are wrong" "my dad says man up and accept it" cannot be helping. Maybe the vicar hoped to head off reactions by explaining the full circumstances and probably they are convincing, but eish, what an upheaval for this kid to be going through anyway without doing it in a full glare of publicity.
It might have been better to simply move to another area and let "Victoria" start at the new school as a girl without all the hoopla.
I worked for a while with the mother of a girl trained to do music therapy for autistic children, and where possible teach them to play the piano. I've long since lost touch with them but can imagine how they felt, watching this. Her daughter said that watching a severely autistic child reacting to music, sometimes the first joyous reaction of their lives, was indescribable.
Hmmm - I'm not always sure of the advice that's thrown around. After all if walking was THAT good for us, postmen would live forever.
I was advised by a cynic to put cats on the covers of my books. Only two of the covers had a cat and those two have both outsold the rest of the series by, between them, nearly three thousand copies, so I tried a cat on the last of the series. Third time wasn't the charm
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain but when it falls around here it buckets it down
The book I'm reading is American and keeps doing flashbacks to Botswana, ridiculous that I am reading in bed, in Spain, feeling at home, then alien, then at home, then alien
Red, oh yeah I'd hate to be growing up now and either forced to rock a doll or be counselled for wanting to tear around with the lads. Up to reading this story I had been thinking girls had way fewer restrictions than when I was a kid - girls routinely play football and rugby, for example, unthinkable back when mammoths roamed the earth!
Do like your gym pics, go you!
And I'm NOT saying, before anyone jumps on me, that I think kids are being forced into gender slots. But if schools are watching anxiously for kids suffering from gender anxieties, there must be conversations with teachers and parents and school counsellors happening that were undreamed of in the past.
Chesney, hey, I think you'd be a good brother to have if there was defending to be done Wish you'd mentioned what age she was when she knew she should have been a he?
Don't let the old man in. Not today.
Luke, may that happen to you on your next walk along the promenade, and may you not be as taken aback as the fella was, but dance along