So my boss likes to "jazz up" reports ocassionally. Our final reports for grants are often strict about plain jane formatting, so we only jazz them up if they are going to outsiders on a fairly frequent basis, or going to someone important.
Well, one report done in March is now going to somewhere important. She wanted to jazz it up. I offered to do it, as our student workers are tied up, and frankly I kind of enjoy this stuff. She says she doesn't want to waste my time and runs off to find someone else to do it. She asked a young secretary who is very competent. I thought it was probably a great choice.
Wrong o. Barb asked her to make the report look nice. Her response? She put a border on the cover page and used arched Word Art for the title and make the author names bigger. All in black & white.
Seriously.
In twenty minutes I downloaded a good Word template and fixed up the formatting intricacies. I'm not exactly a creative genius, but I can at least think to use a template that looks pretty.
Oh, and in unrelated chatter, I am going to be racist and say I hate listening to many Japanese women talk on the phone in their native language. The rhythm is so grating to my ears. They often drag out the end of the last word in their sentence. It's like a roller coaster that keeps going quickly up, then slowly down.
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When I was in China, I learned how one word could be said in 8 different inflections and have 8 different meanings.
It's okay. I hate the smell of c-stores run by people from India. :)
LOL about the report. I have a party tonight and had to jazz up the sponsor signs in a holiday motif. I didn't really have any "choices" so I can't wait to see what they do.
Puffy, I suppose that's similar to a quote in my MIL's letter received last night:
"Been cooking a lot lately with winter vegetables, lots of soups and stews. I got the bone." I think there was something missing in between the two sentences. I was reading her letter to Chris and waggled my eyes and repeated, "ooh, your mom 'got the bone!"
*snort*
Language-ist!
Japanese usually sounds fine to me.
People speaking most Chinese languages always sound angry - like they're POed and not going to take it anymore.
German sounds like dogs vomiting.
I'm a language-ist too. :)
Boo, what's a c-store?
German hurts my ears sometimes. It's just so sharp. The was a young German man on my bus recently, sitting right behind me. He had one of those naturally loud voices and he was rambling on in German to his friend. I had a scrunched up face most of the time, like "ouch!"
convenience store.
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