My Sturdy Methodology
Oct. 15th, 2010 09:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisy1. I am going to try to do one of these new-fangled ten-point entries. They're all the rage. The big question is: do I have ten things to say?
2. Probably not.
3. Yesterday I was alone in the office while everyone else was out and about when a lean, grey-haired man came up the stairs. He had come with a new A4 drawer for the photocopier. I didn't know we needed one, but all righty then, Mr Photocopier Man, whatever you want. He changed the drawer and said, 'You know what was wrong with the old one, don't you?' Indeed I do: one day a couple of months ago we found a little plastic wheel rattling around in it, but the photocopier didn't seem to mind.
4. He sighed in exasperation and said, 'People push them in!' and followed that up with a lengthy lecture on the correct way to push in the paper drawer. He gave the whole office the same lecture when we told him about the little wheel. The short version: do it gently. Don't slam your photocopier's paper drawers, dear readers, or Mr Photocopier Man will be cross.
5. When he first came to look at the photocopier, he changed the A3 drawer to an extra A4 drawer for no apparent reason. We supposed it had something to do with the little wheel, even though the A4 drawer still worked. He just gave us two A4 drawers so we couldn't print on A3. So I said to him today, since we had a new A4 drawer, could we have our A3 drawer back, and he sighed again and poked some menus deep within the photocopier's touch screen and said, 'Ooh, that's a big job.' Then he left.
Bonus (or 'I can't count properly') 4. When the office manager came back from lunch I told her that Mr Photocopier Man had been and changed our drawers over and she said, 'Did he give you a lot of attitude?' Yes, now you mention it, he did.
6. The Catholic Church is getting ready to canonise Australia's first saint, a nun called Mary McKillop who did some of her nunning in this area. She founded her own order and was excommunicated for disagreeing with a bishop and in death has been performing miracles. Apparently you need to do one miracle to be beatified and two to be canonised, and the Blessed Mary has even performed a third just to make sure (this was reported as a 'backup miracle'). Busy lady.
7. My mother went for a walk on the beach promenade the other day and found it signposted with fun facts about the Blessed Mary. It turns out it was for a school thing, in which the kids dressed up as nuns and learnt while they walked. A couple of them were interviewed in yesterday's paper, being asked what they thought it would be like to be a nun. The girls didn't mind the idea, but Travis (11) thought it would be 'bad', because 'you have to do stuff with other nuns'.
8. A sparrow roosts in the eaves under the verandah, just in front of my bedroom. I don't mind this. I do mind that it wakes up at six-thirty every morning and chirps non-stop for an hour. No respect for my day off. Tsk.
9. Last night I watched Julie and Julia. My considered verdict: the Julia parts were great, but Julie was a pill.
10. I found it quite odd at the end when the film puts up a couple of paragraphs about what happened after, and it said that Julie wrote a book about her blog, and that 'her book has been made into a film'. Yes, that would be the film I just watched, wouldn't it? How circular.
2. Probably not.
3. Yesterday I was alone in the office while everyone else was out and about when a lean, grey-haired man came up the stairs. He had come with a new A4 drawer for the photocopier. I didn't know we needed one, but all righty then, Mr Photocopier Man, whatever you want. He changed the drawer and said, 'You know what was wrong with the old one, don't you?' Indeed I do: one day a couple of months ago we found a little plastic wheel rattling around in it, but the photocopier didn't seem to mind.
4. He sighed in exasperation and said, 'People push them in!' and followed that up with a lengthy lecture on the correct way to push in the paper drawer. He gave the whole office the same lecture when we told him about the little wheel. The short version: do it gently. Don't slam your photocopier's paper drawers, dear readers, or Mr Photocopier Man will be cross.
5. When he first came to look at the photocopier, he changed the A3 drawer to an extra A4 drawer for no apparent reason. We supposed it had something to do with the little wheel, even though the A4 drawer still worked. He just gave us two A4 drawers so we couldn't print on A3. So I said to him today, since we had a new A4 drawer, could we have our A3 drawer back, and he sighed again and poked some menus deep within the photocopier's touch screen and said, 'Ooh, that's a big job.' Then he left.
Bonus (or 'I can't count properly') 4. When the office manager came back from lunch I told her that Mr Photocopier Man had been and changed our drawers over and she said, 'Did he give you a lot of attitude?' Yes, now you mention it, he did.
6. The Catholic Church is getting ready to canonise Australia's first saint, a nun called Mary McKillop who did some of her nunning in this area. She founded her own order and was excommunicated for disagreeing with a bishop and in death has been performing miracles. Apparently you need to do one miracle to be beatified and two to be canonised, and the Blessed Mary has even performed a third just to make sure (this was reported as a 'backup miracle'). Busy lady.
7. My mother went for a walk on the beach promenade the other day and found it signposted with fun facts about the Blessed Mary. It turns out it was for a school thing, in which the kids dressed up as nuns and learnt while they walked. A couple of them were interviewed in yesterday's paper, being asked what they thought it would be like to be a nun. The girls didn't mind the idea, but Travis (11) thought it would be 'bad', because 'you have to do stuff with other nuns'.
8. A sparrow roosts in the eaves under the verandah, just in front of my bedroom. I don't mind this. I do mind that it wakes up at six-thirty every morning and chirps non-stop for an hour. No respect for my day off. Tsk.
9. Last night I watched Julie and Julia. My considered verdict: the Julia parts were great, but Julie was a pill.
10. I found it quite odd at the end when the film puts up a couple of paragraphs about what happened after, and it said that Julie wrote a book about her blog, and that 'her book has been made into a film'. Yes, that would be the film I just watched, wouldn't it? How circular.