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Monday, April 2nd, 2012

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    3:27p
    So, Mum calls me yesterday.

    Mum: I'm making a trifle and it calls for lemon curd. You make lemon curd, don't you?
    Me: Yeah, I can send you my recipe, it's good.

    And then I email her:

    Me: *emails* Here is the recipe!
    Mum: *reply emails* Thanks, sweetie! If this trifle comes out good we can serve it at the rehearsal dinner at your wedding! When you get married some day.
    Me: ...

    I was very confused, because she and I have done the "I'm okay that you're not married and don't have kids" conversation, and she seemed to genuinely mean it. Fortunately there was an easy if somewhat delayed explanation: she neglected to mention it was a traditional wedding trifle.

    Phew. Dodged that bullet.

    Then today, she sent me an easter package. I adore her packages. This one contained:

    -- 1 chocolate bunny
    -- 4 tupperware containers (of various sizes) one of which had a chocolate-covered Peep in it
    -- 1 bag of Hershey kisses
    -- 2 boxes of regular Peeps
    -- A CATAPULT KIT

    The bag of Hershey kisses was helpfully labeled "NOT FOR YOU" and only on the reverse of the note taped to it did it explain "THIS IS FOR THE CANDY DISH AT WORK".

    I'm going to use them as ammunition for the catapult.
    6:26p
    Okay:

    Thank you for registering for the Administrative Professionals’ Day Program. As the invitation indicated, this event will be centered around StrengthsQuest, a web-based assessment tool from the perspective of Positive Psychology. The assessment must be done by next Wednesday. The Clifton StrengthsFinder is a 45 minute, web-based assessment that measures the presence of talent in 34 areas called “themes”. You have 20 seconds to respond to each item.

    a) The invitation I got to Administrative Professional's Day made it sound like there would be a nice breakfast buffet and possibly a raffle. Nowhere, anywhere, were personality tests mentioned.

    b) Jesus Christ, if I don't respond within 20 seconds is my laptop going to give me an electric shock?

    c) Wait, isn't the point of Administrative Professionals' Day to appreciate one's office admin, and not give them more work to do?

    ( I'm not a sociopath, but I'm pretty sure if one of the 'themes' was 'Sociopath' I'd have pinged it. )

    At any rate, on Administrative Professionals' Day I think I will go to the breakfast buffet and then quietly slip out before the Strength Finding begins.

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