I got sunshine on a cloudy day

[rolanni]

Tips for supervising secretaries: If you don't want to make the phone call, because you think there's something a little iffy in the proposition, telling your secretary to make the phone call instead is. . .just tacky. Your secretary is not your bullet-proof vest. Also? Your secretary remembers things. Often at inconvenient to you moments. Just sayin'.

Today was the day of the Annual Mammogram, so that was accomplished after work (You've had yours, right? Or scheduled it? If not, go make the appointment. Yes, NOW. I'll wait.).

At home, I made bread, created some small islands of less-than-chaos amid the over-arching disorder, and spent some quality time with Mozart. I did not read George. I did not write. Bad author; no biscuit.

This is not to say that nothing related to writing went forth on the day. The contract for Dragon Ship, George, and Trade Secret arrived, so some bit of time was spent going over it, initialing, signing, and whatnot. That's in an envelope to go back to Madame the Agent tomorrow; also packed up for tomorrow's mail, the corrected pages of Saltation, the mass market edition.

Tomorrow. . .tomorrow comes the counselor, I believe sheorhe is called, from the CPAP provider, who will situate my machine, and teach me its proper care and feeding.

...and the hits just keep on coming.

I hope everyone had a lovely and prosperous Monday. Remember, the week can only get better from here.

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Hee! I love ambiguity in languages, it makes icons like that, and puns, possible.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

It's one of the great mysteries -- we all love to laugh, but it can take time for some jokes to cross the language barrier, because they are based on the language itself. My sister taught on the Navajo reservation, and said the majority of their jokes are elaborate puns based on language, so the jokes don't always translate well for most other people. First the language has to be explained, before the joke!

Thank heavens for pictures to provide an occasional joke shortcut.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I've heard of Navajo but never heard it (I'm a Brit in the UK). An agglutinative language which, from descriptions I've seen, makes VAX machinecode[1] look simple *g*. I can well believe that it doesn't translate at all easily (hence the use made of Navajo speakers in WW2 to confuse the Japanese trying to 'decode' radio messages). Wordplay often doesn't anyway cross-language (trying to explain why English speakers find Martin Luther's "Diet of Worms" amusing, for instance).

[1] Which is also agglutinative, with many (most) of the instructions taking a number of optional prefixes and suffixes. I wonder whether DEC had Navajo speakers in their design team...