For your consideration.

"Patriarch" is not the same word as "patriotic".

Therefore, it follows that

"Patriarchal" is not the same word as "patriotical" (which isn't even a word).

Look at them closely.

Think about it.

Once more, side by side:

patriarch------patriotic

patriarchal------patriotical

Note how there is only ONE "t" in "patriarchal" and no "d".

Why, then, is it so hard to pronounce the darn word correctly?


I ASK YOU.

argh.

Let me just say that I will be incredibly happy when we finally move to our new office and I don't have 8 million people a week asking me where Academic Advisement or the financial aid office are. It will be such a relief to be in a place that is obviously ONLY my department, with a door and everything, instead of being at one end of a hallway that houses, oh, let me count...5 OTHER DEPARTMENTS. I will be mighty happy to no longer be treated as the front desk of all these other departments. I will smile every day knowing that no one is going to ask me to set up an appointment for anyone other than my office. I may even skip to work, secure in the knowledge that one of the creepy-but-well-meaning people I try to avoid can't just walk through my office on his way somewhere else.

These are all very good things that make it nearly impossible to wait another month to get to my new office.

noisy. NOISY.

I don't think it's too much to ask to want to live in a neighborhood where motorcycles and big trucks do not exist. So much for a quiet Saturday...

*sigh*

Fashion tip:

You know how some coats and skirts have walking vents or slits? You know how, when you buy them, those vents or slits are stitched closed with an X of thread?

Well. I am here to inform you that the clever thread X is not decorative. It is there to keep the vent from ripping or becoming misshapen when people try on said skirt or coat. PLEASE unpick the darn thing! Cut the thread! It looks so sloppy when you're wearing an otherwise nice outfit but you haven't cut the thread on your walking vent!

Details, people. Details.

PS: Also check the pockets in coats, especially suit coats. They're usually stitched closed in the store, but are easily opened with a nice seam ripper at home. A whole new world of pockets awaits.