BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Aug 17 - 03:44 PM

You are a caring person, Mrrzy, and a role model for us, whether or not you see it that way. And you have a lot of company. Hang in there.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Thompson
Date: 15 Aug 17 - 08:34 AM

Oh, what a place to be living! Sympathy! (And Macron's popularity didn't last long; his approval rating was down to 36% last time I looked.)

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Aug 17 - 09:00 PM

Oh, Mrrzy, I didn't know. This must have hit you hard. It hit me hard even way up here in RI. I'm sending you hugs and love.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Aug 17 - 01:19 PM

I'm so sorry, Mrrzy. You're one of the good ones, and what happened was a very bad thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Aug 17 - 11:49 PM

You guys know I live in Charlottesville, Virginia... Sigh.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Thompson
Date: 07 May 17 - 02:15 PM

Looks like Macron is in - exit polls are giving him nearly two-thirds of the votes. Le Pen has conceded.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 May 17 - 11:01 AM

Oh, yeah, and France. I fear.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 May 17 - 11:00 AM

Thanks all - yeah still no job. Boys fine, well, one is fine, one ok. Their excellent (the driver's I mean) insurance has me in a rental and has declared the car totaled, expletives deleted... I will update when I know what that means, in money... But they do have great insurance yay!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Noreen
Date: 07 May 17 - 10:50 AM

"Interesting times" for you still, Mrrz- and also for us in the UK and those in France.
I find it hard to be positive when those in power and those who elect them seem determined to ruin the world we have- but we do what we can.

Hope you are enjoying getting to know your new car, and that you and your boys are well.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Charley Noble
Date: 06 May 17 - 08:21 PM

So sorry to hear this.

Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Thompson
Date: 06 May 17 - 05:43 PM

I hope the crashers' insurance will pay for a new side for your car, Mrrzy.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Senoufou
Date: 06 May 17 - 01:05 PM

Oh Mrrzy, so sorry; you must have been quite scared. And your poor car!
Hope you find another very soon.

As ChanteyLass says, at least no-on was hurt (especially you!)

Some people are dreadful on the roads aren't they?

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 May 17 - 12:11 PM

...but are you still searching for a job?

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 May 17 - 07:09 AM

Oh, they *eventually* stopped, about 3 car lengths in front of me, I had time to think they weren't stopping at all.

Sticky buns in the rental would be a fitting revenge!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Thompson
Date: 06 May 17 - 03:06 AM

Bloody hell! They didn't stop? No CCTV at traffic lights?

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 05 May 17 - 06:36 PM

Oh, my! I'm glad nobody, especially you, was hurt, but I'm sorry about your car. Good luck finding a "stick car." In the meantime, you might enjoy eating a sticky bun while searching for your new car.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 May 17 - 02:04 PM

So, I went to NoVa for tea, to meet a family into which one of my nieces is marrying, and someone totalled my car on my way back to the highway. No injuries - I was sitting waiting to go left, they pulled up and sat to my right waiting to go left, and when traffic cleared they forgot I was there and just went, so the entire length of their car scraped the entire length of my car. But insurance says 2 doors and some frame work are more than my car is worth, and it took me FOREVER to find a stickshift.

My mom bought me that car just before she died, too.

How are your lives? Any of you French, for instance, and how's that Brexit going for you who are Brits?

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 17 Apr 17 - 10:43 PM

Well, *that* didn't work. Take II:

...in my sister's bathtub.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 17 Apr 17 - 10:41 PM

On the other hand, *you* could be *here* - in

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Thompson
Date: 03 Feb 17 - 04:43 PM

You could be
here…

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Thompson
Date: 03 Feb 17 - 02:52 PM

Well, after today's events you might be doubtful…

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Feb 17 - 08:07 AM

Avec les << si >> on mettrait Paris en bouteille!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Thompson
Date: 02 Feb 17 - 02:02 PM

Tsoin-tsoin!
Definitely your gris-gris is nudging you to go and visit France. I see you can fly from New York to Paris next month for $220 on Wow airline; you could get an AirBnB room in Paris and if the gris-gris are with you, you could land a job while you're there ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Feb 17 - 08:25 AM

Thompson (is that Dupont or Dupond?) - I have a stick, but it was on the flat. I didn't think it could be the battery but they tried to say it was, so I told them to look harder and they found the wire that connects the guggle to the zatch, or is it the frippin to the krotz, was loose... but I got it back for $100 including the non-tow, so hah.

Of course this morning they called and cancelled today's job, but hey, I'm ON. THE. LIST. And my car runs. Lah di dah.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Thompson
Date: 02 Feb 17 - 04:21 AM

One way to find out: get a bunch of friends to push it to the top of the hill, get in, get 'er rolling in second gear with your foot on the clutch, and once it picks up a little speed, ease off the clutch and the engine will catch. A bit of driving and the battery should get back into order, unless it actually needs replacing.
Oh, wait, though, I don't know the automatic-car version of this…
If it's not the battery, the second most common thing is plugs 'n' points, which aren't a dear thing to fix.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: leeneia
Date: 02 Feb 17 - 02:15 AM

Me old mither once told me that most of the time when a car won't start, it's the battery. I hope that's all it is.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Thompson
Date: 01 Feb 17 - 04:14 PM

A year in France…? Maybe the gris-gris are trying to nudge you into a move for your own good?

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 31 Jan 17 - 09:08 PM

Mrrzy, nooo!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Jan 17 - 04:02 PM

And no good thing goes unpunished - finally got to sub, yay, in the public schools (which are not British public schools) - *and* the moved me from 3rd grade (South Park!) to preschool which I have at least done before if not in English...


...so, of course, my car was dead when I tried to leave. It's still there.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: leeneia
Date: 31 Jan 17 - 12:10 AM

Hi, Mrrzy. There's a reason why people invented lying.

If anybody says you were "turning down work," claim that you were reaching for the phone when awakened from deep sleep, and you knocked the phone to the floor, putting it out of commission until you.....

(Why doesn't a school identify itself? It could be trying to reach a parent about an emergency.)

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 30 Jan 17 - 08:32 PM

Mrrzy, about those phone calls for work: you could have been sleeping, in the shower, somewhere in or out of the house where you couldn't hear the phone . . . I hope it doesn't count against you.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Jan 17 - 08:00 PM

I know, thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jan 17 - 01:38 PM

Mrrzy, I'm so sorry your "tiny mind" thread got -- how do you say -- hijacked. I tried.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jan 17 - 11:29 AM

Wow I did not know this is a 10 year old thread. Maybe you could sell it as a TV series. :.)

Its now time for an unexpected opportunity to emerge.
What could it be?

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Jan 17 - 09:55 AM

OK, so, I do live under a rock. I was getting calls from unrecognized numbers on the hour starting at 5 am, so I turned my phone off - and it was not one but TWO schools calling me with substitute needs. Merde alors. I coulda been working instead of ranting on the internet...

Does this count as "turning down work or offers of work" from the unemployment point of view? I'm kind of afraid to ask the actual people, in case the answer is yes.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Jan 17 - 07:19 PM

SFSG, indeed.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jan 17 - 04:09 PM

Mrrzy, thanks for letting me know that your son is better now. Good to hear!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Nov 16 - 02:13 PM

Yes, eventually, there is now a boot, thank you! And some jet lag, or something akin. And then we have the election. And then we have the post-election. I am not thinking of relaxing any time soon, but at least everbody is in the same boat with me, sink or swim!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Nov 16 - 01:40 PM

Did your kid and the sweetie emerge from the ER then? Hope things are/get better.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Oct 16 - 04:45 PM

Losing a loving animal is too tough for words. I am so sorry. Keep going.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: leeneia
Date: 31 Oct 16 - 08:27 AM

Hi, Mrrzy. I will now pass along some tips on interviewing which I learned from a speaker who had been an HR person and had conducted many interviews.

1. Get your hair styled. (This was aimed at college students, most of whom let their hair just grow.)

2. Get your teeth cleaned, so you will feel more confident about smiling.

3. Smile during the interview, so the interviewer will picture you about the place, smiling.

I think the last thing is the most important.
=========
I'm sorry for your many misfortunes, but I hope the interview goes well.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Oct 16 - 05:47 PM

Thanks, y'all. In minor news, my kickball team is no longer undefeated. At least I don't care about sports...

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 30 Oct 16 - 03:13 PM

I, too, am sorry about your cat, and I hope your friend's foot heals quickly and completely.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Senoufou
Date: 30 Oct 16 - 01:29 PM

Ah, un gris-gris! If faut voir le feticheur!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Oct 16 - 09:55 AM

Yeah, thanks, apparently it's not just me - last night while I was out Halloweening a drawer fell on my kid's sweetie's foot, this was at about 2 am this morning, it's now almost 11 and they are still not back from the ER, apparently surgery was involved.

Senoufou - il y a un grisgris quelque part! Je m'en souviens...

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Senoufou
Date: 29 Oct 16 - 06:15 PM

Oh Mrrzy, you poor soul. I'm so so sorry about your cat. I know what it's like to lose a much-loved cat.
Sending you a hug and lots of sympathy.
Eliza

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Oct 16 - 06:06 PM

So, yesterday, my niece is visiting and we take a pic, which (unbeknownst to me) she smart-phoned to the rest of the family.

Then my phone starts going off with messages from all my sisters and other niblings and thought, Oh shit, who died? before seeing any of the messages.

Then this morning, my cat dies.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Sep 16 - 05:18 PM

You go -- I mean, allez-y, Mrr!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Sep 16 - 05:13 PM

Well, I have an interview - because of my French, which I learned through luck-of-the-draw when I was a wee bairn, and not because of anything I accomplished through my own scholarly efforts. But it's an interview!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 10 Sep 16 - 11:51 AM

Hope so! At least, livable!