Posted by Jost on September 2, 2006, at 13:35:45
In reply to I'd like to place an order... » Jost, posted by Racer on August 31, 2006, at 20:49:34
Racer, I'm up for spice cake-- with mocha icing (yummmmmm!--I love mocha and spice cake!)
I'll bet you're a great cook. I'll keep my eye on the oven, too. No cake-fires.
Know what, though?
When I was in grad school, I wanted to transfer. I only applied to two or three schools, the three best programs in my field. Cause I didn't want to bother otherwise.
I got rejected at one, I think-- and I never heard from one (the one I really wanted to go to-- which is a long story--but they kept telling me they couldn't make a decision because one of my recommendations was missing, so my application wasn't complete),
so I got a letter from the third saying I was on the waiting list and to CALL to find out if I had gotten in.
Now, I do NOT make phone calls.
Plus: I would have been devastated if I hadn't gotten in. Which there really was not reason to think I would.
So, I didn't call.
And I didn't call.
And it was getting to that point where I was going crazy, cause I just needed to know.
So I got my Sig O to get someone at the office to call, and say, "I'm xxxxx. And I'm calling to find out.... (I don't know what they said, but whatever you say, lawyers know this stuff)....."
It turned out that I had gotten in. Yet, there's no way, I mean NO Way I would ever have found that out, if I had had to make the call.
So I believe there is a fine tradition of getting brave people who know how to make phone calls to make important phone calls (or unimportant phone calls).
So when shall we have that spice cake?
Jost
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