One of those days
Friday, September 3rd, 2010 06:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniBefore I forget — Mouse and Dragon debuts at Number 10 on Locus Magazine’s Bestsellers for July, appearing in the September issue.
And there was much rejoicing!
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It was still hot in the day-job’s attic office today. I don’t mean to complain, but 89F/32C and not a breath of air, despite the best efforts of the poor little desk fan? Is too hot to work. I did try to stay all day, but — no go. At least the work’s all caught up.
On the way home from the day-job, I stopped at the ticketing office of the Waterville Opera House, which is bewilderingly not in the Opera House at all, but ‘way, ‘way up in the eaves of the Sterns Center, to pick up our tickets for Great Big Sea on September 14. Now that I have them safely in hand, I feel a good deal better, and really looking forward to the show.
That mission accomplished, I motored out to the eyeglass place to pick up my eyeglasses — which still weren’t in. The first time they came in, they failed the quality check, but they were Absolutely due in today. Argh*.
On my way home, the sign at the CVS caught my eye: FLU SHOTS NOW! I figured I could get that out of the way, at least, and pulled in. Inside, there are signs all over the place telling me that there are FLU SHOTS NOW, but nothing telling me which department to go to.
Assuming the pharmacy was my destination, I arrived to find even more signs declaring FLU SHOTS NOW, but no sign that said, oh, Register Here. So I went to the cashier, who looked at me crankily and said that I had to register at the drop-off window. Fair enough. I took myself over to the drop-off window and when my turn came said to the young woman behind the counter that they needed a sign, so people would know where to register. She smiled, like one smiles at dotty old ladies, and pulled up her computer.
“Now!” she said brightly, “When would you like to schedule your appointment?”
“I’m a walk-in.” I point to the paper taped to her counter, promising that I could either make an appointment or walk-in. “I’d like my shot now.”
“Today isn’t a walk-in day,” she told me.
I took a deep breath. “I have,” I said, “a besetting sin. I read signs. Worse, I believe them. And so, when I saw the sign out in front of your store that said FLU SHOTS NOW, I somehow assumed that meant that there were flu shots available in this store NOW.”
“No, you have to make an appointment. Or, if you prefer to walk-in,” she said helpfully, “I can look up the next walk-in date for you.”
“Or,” I said, finding yet another sign, this one half hidden behind a display of traveling pill bottles, “I see here that I can schedule myself online. Which, now that I know about it, I’m perfectly happy to do.”
Whereupon, I turned around and left.
I fear that I am becoming a termagant.
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*And! They did arrive today, did the eyeglasses — at 5:30. A trip into town is on tomorrow’s schedule.
Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.
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Date: 2010-09-03 11:18 pm (UTC)They put on such a great show. Have fun!
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Date: 2010-09-03 11:27 pm (UTC)Shame! Shame on you for thinking people mean what they say!
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Date: 2010-09-04 12:01 am (UTC)Keep up the good work!
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Date: 2010-09-04 01:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-04 06:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-04 10:29 am (UTC)join COFs
Date: 2010-09-04 12:33 am (UTC)Barb in Bandon
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Date: 2010-09-04 01:00 am (UTC)The sign that gets me snippy is "fresh-squeezed lemonade" (or lime or orange or whatever), and when I order it I am handed a cup with punch poured from a jug (or worse, from a fountain dispenser.)
I always hand it back with a polite smile and say, "I would like to see the lemon rinds, please."
Alas, this is always met with a blank stare of incomprehension...
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Date: 2010-09-04 04:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-04 09:52 am (UTC)My partner reacts badly to something in the Minute Maid "lemonade". Vile headaches. And unlike most of his headache triggers... I can't reliably taste it. And he loves lemonade.
Most of the time he can only have lemonade at home, because I make it with actual lemons.
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Date: 2010-09-04 10:37 am (UTC)Also the signs on roads advertising "Hot Food Now" (in the next layby / pull-off) and the like when the van which supplies it (some of the time) is nowhere to be found. I keep wanting to get a paint can and spray "NO" in red across them when they leave the sign there and go home -- if they don't like that their sign is corrected then they should take it down when they aren't there.
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Date: 2010-09-04 04:28 am (UTC)oh, completely OT but I like the Ginko leaves =)
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Date: 2010-09-04 04:32 am (UTC)Various
Date: 2010-09-04 06:32 am (UTC)Great Big Sea. Aha said to be a band by another comment. Must look up.
Termagant. Had to look up in dictionary. Originally some middle eastern pretty noisy deity of some kind. Word comes to Europe and becomes a scolding old shrew. Imagine that. Perhaps you should move to UT. People generally treated better than that here. I think it is due to the very small population. So fewer nasty burned out bureaucrats. Probably none at all in our area. A sign in the supermarket advertises "Floo Shoot Out" which I'm assuming is some kind of shot clinic. Get it? Ha Ha. Pretty good. I must pay closer attention to exactly what it means. But...I'm quite assured that it will be whatever it says it is. No horsing around.
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Date: 2010-09-04 02:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-04 03:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-04 03:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-04 08:08 pm (UTC)Flu shots
Date: 2010-09-06 07:45 pm (UTC)Two days ago, I went to the Target in suburban Harrisburg. They had a sign on the door advertising that flu shots were available on a walk-in basis at the pharmacy counter in the store.
M.C. Thomson, Harrisburg, PA
Great Big Sea
Date: 2010-09-08 02:10 am (UTC)Have a big time!