On Friday I met with a college classmate of mine for lunch.
Good god, what is wrong with me? I literally work TWO blocks away from this guy. I really enjoy his company and consider him a friend. And I hadn’t seen him for maybe… 5 months?!?! No one is that busy.
Anyway. He was updating me on our classmates’ whereabouts when he told me one of our classmates is looking for a job in Chicago, but having a hard time getting interviews and responses.
Before I even thought about it, I blurted out, “She should send a resume to my firm. We are looking for people right now.”
Then, I had a really, really weird feeling in my stomach.
Working with a former classmate shouldn’t be that strange, right? You spent at least four years of school with them, and chances are, have worked with them before. And you wouldn’t recommend a person you don’t like send a resume to your firm (I didn’t), so it should all be fun and games!
But I think I’m a bit territorial. And settled. And comfortable. It would be SO WEIRD to have someone I know from college waltz into my office and sit across from me.
It might be fun. But it might be weird. Those are just the thoughts that went through my head.
It’s highly unlikely anything will happen anyway…
Do you know anyone who goes out of their way to correct people, even when it’s unnecessary, just to make themselves feel better than everyone?
I do.
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Today’s Idiom: to pass the busk – to evade responsibility
I tired to pass the buck when my boss asked who specified the pink wall tile.
Today I showed this book to Steven at the bookstore and said, “Steven, look at this book! I think it will like, help me with my vocabulary! And sounding smarter and stuff.”
Alright, that is not a direct quote, but it is unfortunately close to what I actually said.
I’ve wanted to improve my vocabulary for sometime now. And one of my coworkers has an extremely wide range of vocabulary, and I am just a teensy bit jealous…
I bought the book and started working in it tonight when I realized each daily worksheet has a feature called “Today’s Idiom.” Apparently, an “idiom” is what I actually meant the other day when I said “A lot of my older colleagues use figures of speech I have never heard before…”
So, I am going to introduce a new feature on my blog to help me learn the idioms – I will share them here at the end of each post, in a section called “Today’s Idiom.” Well, I’ll do that until I get sick of it anyway.
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Today’s Idiom: to eat humble pie – to admit your error and apologize
A few weeks ago, when Christina and Kyle were here, we challenged them to a game of bowling. After losing miserably, Steven and I both had to eat humble pie. (Steven and I don’t like the taste of humble pie, so on Friday we each bought our own custom bowling ball. Now Christina and Kyle are going to get some humble pie in their FACES the next time they’re here.)
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