There are 2 t
imes you absolutely do NOT talk.
1. During church (except during times of confusion to quickly answer a question, or if the person sitting next you didn't hear which verse to turn to or something important that was said and it should be quick, anything longer than 4 or 5 words is too much)! This is not hard; shut your mouth for one hour out of your whole week, that's all I ask.
2. during a movie. Tonight my husband and I went to see "He's just not that into you". It was a very worldly idea on love and relationships, but an okay romantic comedy. It was even better how the guy sitting behind us felt the need to have open dialogue with his wife through the entire movie, barely leaving 30 seconds of silence between quips about something that just happened and theories on where the movie was going.
I'm sure there are other times to keep your trap shut as well but right now I'm trying to forget about the guy in the wrong theatre out of my mind.
Also this morning on the way to drop Steve off at work we had to detour and take Bangerter to North Temple instead of staying on 201 to 215 like we usually do and then we were stuck at the North Temple off ramp for 40 minutes waiting for the road to open again after a few cars played hockey on their way to work. That pretty much sucked. My day was really good after that though. I headed over to hang with a friend for a little bit, then after picking up Steve from work I mailed pictures to my grandpa and got to work with enough time to log in to my programs and be ready to take calls by 1:30. I have really enjoyed ARUP, but I don't think it would have been as much fun without Jessica. She was also contracted through SOS and we have been sitting nex
t to each other since the first day. We have a lot of laughs, including our brief fantasy of CSI:SLC with Dr. D the lab rat Pathologist (Jessica is a college graduate lab rat in need of a serious career, ARUP was a moment of desperation). I didn't actually play a part in CSI:SLC, mostly we were just joking around about how Dr. D (Jessica) needs a really kick butt job and that could work. We compare our experiences with Callers. I had one on the second day that was insistent that because he has called for years and years and never given more than a last initial he was no way going to give up his entire last name to me. When I politely asked for his whole name, explaining that it was requested of me to do so, he hung up. Well the unfortunate thing about that is at this particular time of night Jessica and I were the only ones taking calls so when her line rang we were sure it would be my caller hoping to get a different agent that would lazily not ask him for his last name. It wasn't him so the next call that came to me was...we'll call him Sam... He tells me it's him again and I got really excited and said to him in my most enthusiastic voice "Well hey there Sam, it's so nice to hear from you again"! He wasn't enthused; he started to explain to me about how he trie
d to get someone else but the phone transferred him to me again. So I asked him "Sam, wouldn't it have been easier to just give me your last name to begin with"? I really dislike it when someone would rather waste time and energy to get their way than to just give it up. Well he still wasn't willing to budge; he said "Fine it's Sam H-U-L-K"! By the way he slowly and unsurely spelling it out, it was obvious to me that he was taking a piece of his childhood dream of being a big badass green dude or maybe a body building blonde by coming up with that name, b
ut all I needed was a name, any name. So Jessica and I had a good laugh over that one that night and for a couple days after even. That was about 2 and a half weeks ago and I hadn't talked to him since, neither had Jessica, we were just talking about that a couple days ago. So tonight when I asked for my caller's name and the caller answered with "Sam". I very excitedly said "OH is this Sam Hulk"? Yes it was! I'm guessing he had been calling the old line this last couple of weeks and was already irritated that whoever he talked to tonight decided to transfer him to the correct line. It's always great to have a good laugh at work and Jessica and I seem to get plenty. Between the courier's calling telling us there are no 
"cooties" (i.e. infectious contents) and my pal Skip in Little Rock who is just an absolute delight to talk to each day!
At the end of next week our job there will be done and Sam can go back to talking to lazy reps who won't ask for his last name and Skip will have to be kind to someone else. Jessica is going to start working someplace where her PhD will be put to good use (other than the derby court). I'll be cutting back to only have one 6 hr/week job which I'm very thankful to have considering there is a lot of people out there who don't even have that!
That wraps up my rant/reminiscing session for the night. Thanks for reading and I hope you all enjoy.
imes you absolutely do NOT talk.1. During church (except during times of confusion to quickly answer a question, or if the person sitting next you didn't hear which verse to turn to or something important that was said and it should be quick, anything longer than 4 or 5 words is too much)! This is not hard; shut your mouth for one hour out of your whole week, that's all I ask.
2. during a movie. Tonight my husband and I went to see "He's just not that into you". It was a very worldly idea on love and relationships, but an okay romantic comedy. It was even better how the guy sitting behind us felt the need to have open dialogue with his wife through the entire movie, barely leaving 30 seconds of silence between quips about something that just happened and theories on where the movie was going.
I'm sure there are other times to keep your trap shut as well but right now I'm trying to forget about the guy in the wrong theatre out of my mind.
Also this morning on the way to drop Steve off at work we had to detour and take Bangerter to North Temple instead of staying on 201 to 215 like we usually do and then we were stuck at the North Temple off ramp for 40 minutes waiting for the road to open again after a few cars played hockey on their way to work. That pretty much sucked. My day was really good after that though. I headed over to hang with a friend for a little bit, then after picking up Steve from work I mailed pictures to my grandpa and got to work with enough time to log in to my programs and be ready to take calls by 1:30. I have really enjoyed ARUP, but I don't think it would have been as much fun without Jessica. She was also contracted through SOS and we have been sitting nex
t to each other since the first day. We have a lot of laughs, including our brief fantasy of CSI:SLC with Dr. D the lab rat Pathologist (Jessica is a college graduate lab rat in need of a serious career, ARUP was a moment of desperation). I didn't actually play a part in CSI:SLC, mostly we were just joking around about how Dr. D (Jessica) needs a really kick butt job and that could work. We compare our experiences with Callers. I had one on the second day that was insistent that because he has called for years and years and never given more than a last initial he was no way going to give up his entire last name to me. When I politely asked for his whole name, explaining that it was requested of me to do so, he hung up. Well the unfortunate thing about that is at this particular time of night Jessica and I were the only ones taking calls so when her line rang we were sure it would be my caller hoping to get a different agent that would lazily not ask him for his last name. It wasn't him so the next call that came to me was...we'll call him Sam... He tells me it's him again and I got really excited and said to him in my most enthusiastic voice "Well hey there Sam, it's so nice to hear from you again"! He wasn't enthused; he started to explain to me about how he trie
d to get someone else but the phone transferred him to me again. So I asked him "Sam, wouldn't it have been easier to just give me your last name to begin with"? I really dislike it when someone would rather waste time and energy to get their way than to just give it up. Well he still wasn't willing to budge; he said "Fine it's Sam H-U-L-K"! By the way he slowly and unsurely spelling it out, it was obvious to me that he was taking a piece of his childhood dream of being a big badass green dude or maybe a body building blonde by coming up with that name, b
ut all I needed was a name, any name. So Jessica and I had a good laugh over that one that night and for a couple days after even. That was about 2 and a half weeks ago and I hadn't talked to him since, neither had Jessica, we were just talking about that a couple days ago. So tonight when I asked for my caller's name and the caller answered with "Sam". I very excitedly said "OH is this Sam Hulk"? Yes it was! I'm guessing he had been calling the old line this last couple of weeks and was already irritated that whoever he talked to tonight decided to transfer him to the correct line. It's always great to have a good laugh at work and Jessica and I seem to get plenty. Between the courier's calling telling us there are no 
"cooties" (i.e. infectious contents) and my pal Skip in Little Rock who is just an absolute delight to talk to each day!At the end of next week our job there will be done and Sam can go back to talking to lazy reps who won't ask for his last name and Skip will have to be kind to someone else. Jessica is going to start working someplace where her PhD will be put to good use (other than the derby court). I'll be cutting back to only have one 6 hr/week job which I'm very thankful to have considering there is a lot of people out there who don't even have that!
That wraps up my rant/reminiscing session for the night. Thanks for reading and I hope you all enjoy.
I can usually handle people talking during stuff, but not if it's someone I'm with. This is particularly troublesome because Spencer likes to have conversations about the sermon during the sermon. It's like, I love you, but can you hold that thought for like 40 minutes? Haha.
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