But First ...
[copied from dland]
It said that
* There are 14,998 people in the U.S. with my first name.
* Statistically the 1495th most popular first name. (tied with 85 other first names)
* More than 99.9 percent of people with my first name are female.
and
* There are 0 people in the U.S. with my last name.
* This name is not found in our database, this means the name is relatively uncommon.
therefore there is no one in the United States with my name, including, I presume, me.
I should like to think that more than 99.9 percent of people with my first name are female, since I have one of those Something-Anne names. I hate it to death, but it is nothing if not a girl's name. In fact, probably one of the things I never liked about it is that it's too girly. I never thought of that before until just this minute.
Things are going well, she said hesitantly.
I told them to go ahead and order the hearing aids today. I really wasn't wavering at all, but the office person there had to get back to me with information about the warranty. Get this. The audiologist had told me that he thought the company covered repairs, damage, and loss for two years. It turned out that they only covered repairs for two years, and damage and loss for one. So he's going to cover the second year damage and loss himself, because he told me that I was going to get it. He certainly seems to be a mensch.
I went to the gym today, and when I calculated the activity points for WW, it came out to 2, so I didn't walk away any pounds when I got home, as I had planned. Let's not be insane, shall we?
I'm very into food again, as I always am when I am on the WW, figuring points and working out what I can eat. I think it's comforting for me to do this and gives me a tremendous sense of control. My scale tells me that I've lost a pound and a half each day for the last two days, which is certainly the water weight you lose when you start a diet, but it is encouraging.
I also got nice compliments on my make-up today from two people, which you know I crave, and so that made me happy. I'm going to try to let that go now and have some confidence in the whole thing.
I had some unusual classes in today, three very small groups with the ESL teacher, which means that these were kids with very limited English. Some of them, I think, are very recently arrived here and speak almost no English. I was doing the whole plagiarism thing with them, which is something of a stock lesson of mine, but I really had to adapt it for them. It was fun, and they were nice kids, and seemed to get it on some level. Their teacher is the most wonderful patient teacher in the world who takes absolutely no crap from them, and it's always fun working with her. I also made a new make-up convert out of her today, so that was fun, too.
Not sure what I'm having for dinner, surprisingly, but K left me a note that when she gets home from work at 8:15, she's planning to eat the leftover stirfry. And so was I. But I have other options, I just haven't worked them out yet.
Oh, and another perk of the new hearing aids? The office is only open on Tuesday mornings and Wednesday afternoons, and they have no open appointments on Wednesday the 28th. So I'll have to take the day off on Tuesday the 27th and go get them in the morning. And Tuesday the 27th is ... ? AN IN-SERVICE DAY! HAH! Getting out of another one, baby!
WATCHING STILL STANDING :: ENTRY #1371
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