Interesting anecdotes of my day, from the top:

My ex boss. My ex boss is from China. He moved here in the 60’s so he no longer has an accent, but he still has the rythm and the speed. So he TALKS like This, do You know what I’m SAYING???!!! Anyway, we were on the phone this afternoon and he’s talk yelling at me (our conversations are one sided, I don’t have to participate other than “uh huh”) and in the middle of a sentence he yells at the top of his lungs “HOLD THE LINE NOW!!!!!!!!!”. He doesn’t await a response, he just puts the phone down. “My TEA KETTLE was whistling. HOLD THE LINE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” and off he goes again . . .

Ice Tea. I was at a favorite website this afternoon when I ran across their question and answer section. A woman was asking why Southerners mispronounce “iced tea”. This prompted the webmaster to make fun of us for the mispronuciation and various other things. I was greatly offended. First of all, it’s our word. Who do those Yanks think they are to tell us how to pronounce it? It’s like Eddie Izzard and the word herb. The English pronounce the H because “There’s a f*cking H in it.” Now, I realize some people spell it with a D at the end, but just as many people in the south don’t. Therefore, if we don’t want to pronounce the D, that’s fine, because half the time there isn’t a D to pronounce and it’s our word to pronounce how we want to. Ice freakin’ tea! Secondly, most of the time we don’t say Ice or Iced at all in the South because it should be assumed anyway! If I ask for tea there better be ice in it! What we do pronouce is the “hot” in “hot tea” because hot tea’s for the you know what’s.

Michael Moore. He disturbs me once again. Or wait - he disturbs me all the time. Before you freak out and stop reading because you think I must be some ultra conservative weirdo, let me say that I am moderate. Now, that being said, what I am about to talk about should be disturbing to hard core liberals as well. I was watching CNN this evening and it was reported that Michael Moore was turned down for a speaking engagement at a university because he wanted . . . $35000 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe it? The college president couldn’t when he received the contract. He pulled out immediately, stating that such an amount of money would be far better used on campus for other things. I would think that Mr. High and Mighty Moore would think so also, but no, he needs to line his pockets. I thought his image was supposed to be of a man who fights for the disadvantaged, but here he is wanting to charge a college $35000 for one hour worth of work that could be used to provide a disadvantaged student with any number of costs, or for the entire student body to increase the quality of their education. He’s such a hypocrite.

My father in law. Two weeks ago my father in law tells us that he has a fever in his back and that he may very well know what is causing it. Tonight my husband complains of a fever in his own back as we are getting in the car to drive home. My father in law says (I kid you not) “Hey, I passed that stone, do you want me to go inside and get it so you can see how it came out?”

With that, I leave you . . .