It's darn good, and I'm not complaining.

But I must say:

Dear iTunes,
Don't think I didn't notice that after I posted about you in this thread, that you didn't play any U2 for HOURS (and that when you did, you chose to play The Star Spangled Banner from Rattle and Hum). Yes, I'm on to you. I have, however, greatly enjoyed hearing the Dead Can Dance-Star Tours-Squirrel Nut Zippers combo that you came up with. I would never have put those three together like that.

No no no... anything but THAT!

Talking Heads and They Might Be Giants are my iPod's obessions.

Dear scaeagles,
Thank you for your advice while I applied and interviewed for this new job I got. Much appreciated.
GC
:)

Dear GC,

You are most certainly welcome.

However, thanking me publically for something might have the effect of ruining my image on the board as the evil conservative overlord. Please refrain in the future.

Scaeagles

closet liberal scaeagles,

'Abbey Road' = best album ever produced

Signed,
GC



My iTunes shuffles my Disney tunes into the mix all the time. I'll be listening to Dusty Springfield one minute and the next thing I hear is the Adventureland barker bird. Or Sarah McLaughlin (sp?) will play and then the next thing I hear is a roar from the Matterhorn's abominable snowman and the next thing to come up is 'Tick Tick Bang' by Prince. Funny stuff.
:D

Dear grant office:

I'm sorry that my monthly report request is such an enormous burden on you that you felt it necessary to a) make snarky comments about my request and b) include those comments when you forwarded to me your request to call you about it.

However, you are the grant office. You are the *only* office on campus that knows which industry-sponsored clinical trials ultimately receive funding. I need that list in order to determine which studies to bill for their IRB fee. I have to do it this way because YOUR OFFICE, when setting up this plan, didn't think to set up a system for fee collection.

Furthermore, the office to which the fees are owed was, until last July, part of your office. So, until you spun them off into their own unit, they were part of you. If you hadn't done that, you'd have to do this report anyhow because I'm sure you'd want the tens of thousands of dollars (that make up the ENTIRE operations budget that is now $40K in the red because of missing fees) if they were going into your budget.

AND, your office is subordinate to mine. You are a subordinate unit in the University-wide Office of Research. I've got my marching orders from the Vice Provost and she's your boss, too. She wants this done, and I doubt she'll be pleased when I inform her that you refused to help. Particularly after Friday's "team building" retreat where we all were encouraged to work together. That includes you, by the way.

I'm sorry that academic units badger you for reports because they don't maintain their own databases. This is hardly the same situation, as should be perfectly clear from the information requested and the units making the request. Perhaps if you had considered the fee collection process when concocting this scheme I wouldn't need to be making this request, so step off, beeyotch.

No love AT ALL,
Me.

Dear LoT friends,
Yes I reusrected a very old thread. I ran across it in search and I liked it.

~ponine


Dear Weather,
Enough is enough. I am melting, as is most of my city. It was more tolerable in Las Vegas than it is here right now.

Dear Family of mine that I adore,
Back off.
Its hot, and I am already cranky. Do me a favor and behave so that I dont stress out on top of everything else.
And buy ice cream. Please.

Love, ME

Dear Ponine,
I loved this thread. Thanks for resurrecting it.

Dear Yoga,
I don't feel like doing you tonight

Dear Michael,
Thanks in advance for cleaning the house. (hint!)

Much love,
Traci

Dear nose,

I get it. It's allergy season. You can stop now. And by stop I do not mean running things down my throat into my lungs. I really don't appreciate being made to appear as if I have consumption. The tragic beauty "La Boheme" thing just isn't my style. Thanks.

~Goonie