How can I remain positive...
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cedar_groveWhen everyone else around me is falling apart and the one thing I want to happen is just going nowhere and I seem to be the only one trying my damndest to /make/ it happen even if I can't /do/ anything because it all has to be done from the other end?
My conversation with Pam today when like this...
"...Pam speaking, how may I help you?"
"Hi Pam it's Eirian,"
"Hi Eirian," (mispronounced, but then /everyone/ does.)
"Hi, just wondering if you gotten anywhere with this--"
"No I didn't, that's why I haven't called you."
"Ah, well I was wondering if I'd missed your call because I had one of those days and actually forgot my cellphone."
"Oh, well, no, I didn't call."
We didn't really say much more to each other and she sounded rather annoyed that I'd called. Maybe I misunderstood when she said she'd call the number she'd been given and call me back, and I thought she meant she was going to do it as soon as she'd hung up with me, on Monday, but that was my understanding of it, so when did she mean? What am I supposed to do now, without annoying her? How long do I give her before I call again? *sighs* The message I'm starting to get is a very negative one... and I'm trying to be positive...
So I guess I'll keep on plugging along... doing the do, writing the writes, and applying everywhere I can until either this works out and she gets her arse in gear, or something else turns up that works out better.
*sighs*
My conversation with Pam today when like this...
"...Pam speaking, how may I help you?"
"Hi Pam it's Eirian,"
"Hi Eirian," (mispronounced, but then /everyone/ does.)
"Hi, just wondering if you gotten anywhere with this--"
"No I didn't, that's why I haven't called you."
"Ah, well I was wondering if I'd missed your call because I had one of those days and actually forgot my cellphone."
"Oh, well, no, I didn't call."
We didn't really say much more to each other and she sounded rather annoyed that I'd called. Maybe I misunderstood when she said she'd call the number she'd been given and call me back, and I thought she meant she was going to do it as soon as she'd hung up with me, on Monday, but that was my understanding of it, so when did she mean? What am I supposed to do now, without annoying her? How long do I give her before I call again? *sighs* The message I'm starting to get is a very negative one... and I'm trying to be positive...
So I guess I'll keep on plugging along... doing the do, writing the writes, and applying everywhere I can until either this works out and she gets her arse in gear, or something else turns up that works out better.
*sighs*
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Date: 2004-06-27 09:49 pm (UTC)How do we silly Americans mangle your name? Say it like Irene, two syllables? Or, in the South, Ahr-een?
Or is it something I'm not even picking up on because I do it?
*hugs*
LOL
Date: 2004-06-28 05:19 am (UTC)Eh-rian (short first vowel)
Irene
Air-ian
Eh-rina
Ee-rian
/Eye/-rian (stress on the first syllable) - which is the closest but still wrong.
For the record, the correct pronounciation is like the last one, but the stress falls in the penultimate syllable. the /Ri/ bit.