In which Rolanni is exhausted

[rolanni]

It has been a singularly exhausting day. Shopping has been done, mail has been collected, the doctor and the pharmacy have been visited. Steve and I did stop at the new! relocated! Cacciatore’s to have befores and a glass of wine, which was a pleasant interlude.

Part of what made the day so particularly exhausting is that a doctor’s office keeps calling my cellphone, leaving messages for people who aren’t me. I dealt with them about a billing inquiry that wasn’t for me the week before last. Today, it was a woman identifying herself as “Margaret” of the Dartmouth-Maine Medical Group who was calling “Jill” to schedule an appointment. I tried to call “Margaret” back to inform her of her error — twice. The first time I was on hold for twenty minutes without anyone ever picking up the phone; the second time for fifteen minutes. I finally called the oversight office of the hospital the practice is affiliated with, where, no I didn’t get a live human being, but I did at least get voice mail.

I do hope someone finds Jill’s actual phone number and gets her appointment straightened around.

Sigh.

In other, less exhausting news, Steve has placed a brand new hardcover edition of Partners in Necessity on eBay. There aren’t many of these left. Up until two days ago, I’d've said there weren’t any of these left, but there you are. If you’ll remember, our first three books — Agent of Change, Conflict of Honors, and Carpe Diem — were all paperback originals, so the only way you can get them in hardback (should you be a fan of hardcover novels) is in this omnibus edition. Anyhow, if you’re interested, take a look: here’s the link. The auction goes over on March 5.

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

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[claire774.livejournal.com]

Maybe that comment in Russian is from the doctor's office. I think that it was very nice of you to try and straighten out that message that was left on your cell phone. Most people wouldn't have done that.

Also I wrote a comment about the dharmapala. I have to add that this is from Tibetan Buddhism not any other kind. They don't have those kinds of deities in Zen, for example.

Also thank you for continuing to consider how the latest chapbooks are going eventually to make it to paper. And speaking of that I was able to find a reasonably priced copy of "The Reluctant Widow". Whew. Wasn't easy. It's not out in mass paperback in this country.

[grassrose.livejournal.com]

..."here's the link" - where it's already going to bring you more than it would have, new. Sweet!

The Russian fellow just stumbled across your page, declared himself here, swore mildly at the fact that there was no Russian, and (presumably) wandered off again. I peeked at his page. While I didn't spend a lot of time on it, he didn't look like a flake. He might have been drunk.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the explanation of the Russian commenter. Being monolingual, and not able to get a good translation, I erred on the side of caution and deleted the message.