I’ve decided to give NaNoWriMo a bash this year.

-Aki

After the very prompt phone call from MTN, the promised follow up call (within half an hour I was told) never happened. I was resigned at this stage to either A) Give up or B) Send them another email, this one a little more scathing than the last.

Imagine my surprise at receiving a call this morning from a courier company who wanted to know if it was alright if they delivered my new cellphone to my place of work this afternoon.

I don’t know if cellphone companies usually do this, but it makes me feel kind of special.

-Aki

Not sure if it makes up for the long wait, but I sent MTN a complaint via their website about being unable to get a contract with them and I’ll be damned if I didn’t get an immediate phone call.

On the upside, it would appear I now have a contract. On the downside, giving info over the phone means my name is probably going to be misspelled.

-Aki

Depending on whether or not you like your own handwriting, this is quite an fun thing to do. I created a font from my handwriting for my ongoing cookbook project.

- Aki

Not all telesales people can be as dim as this guy it would seem. A call I received the other day was quite the opposite to my previous encounter.

The caller was looking for Nantalith, who at the moment is on extended leave from home. I gave them my default answer.

Me: “She doesn’t live here anymore.”

Telesales person: “I’m calling from Telkom. The account is in her name.”

Me : “Oh er, well, she’s away. For a long time.”

Telesales person: “When will she be back?”

Me: “I can’t really say.”

Telesales person: “We wanted to offer her X.”

Me: “Well, she’s not here.”

Telesales person: “So you don’t know when she’ll be back?”

Me: (annoyed) “No.”

Telesales person: “Well, I’m going to call again.”

She probably didn’t intend for it to sound like a threat.

-Aki

I’m busy writing up a marketing proposal for work and I’ve noticed that there is a disturbing tendency for repetition in this kind of work.

When writing, loquaciousness comes naturally to me, so dressing up my theories and ideas with florid words and long winded yet poignant explanations happens automatically.

Advantages of this include the fact that my proposal is a sufficient number of pages long. Sufficient perhaps to impress, however I do wonder if my superiors will notice that I’ve repeated the same point an average of twice per sentence.

Added to this, I’ve been reading a lot of Terry Pratchett lately and, coupled with the Ben Trovato article I read recently, there is also the urge to be subtly satirical and scathingly sarcastic.

-Aki

The print was bought many months ago and regrettably forgotten. Upon finding it the other day, we were spurred (guilt may have played a part) into buying a frame for said print. I absolutely love it. I stare at it every so often. In an obsessed kind of way.

Le Chat Noir

-Aki

After a very positive meeting with my superiors I’ve decided to stay on at my current job for a while. However, I may still re-evaluate at the end of the year, which is the life span I had credited this position with a short while ago.

Although many things have not and will not change about my job (namely mentally deficient co-workers and delinquent printers) others things, since the meeting, are now being viewed in a different and more positive light.

On one hand I am a bit thrown, because a re-evaluation of my job has equaled a re-evaluation of my immediate plans but on the other I am relieved. Job hunting is not a task I relish.

-Aki

A typical work conversation:

Boss: Can we make this entirely black? You know, to screenprint it?
Me: Sure, but I’ll have to redraw it.
Boss: It’ll make it a lot easier to print.
Me: Not a problem, but I’ll have to redraw it.
Boss: Not to mention quicker. (walks away)
Me: So I’ll just go ahead and redraw it, shall I?

It occurs to me that I didn’t need to to be there for this conversation to take place.

-Aki

I am bent out of shape (figuratively) because my car door is bent out of shape (literally). Again.

-Aki