Favorite thing today:Someone I work with made up a word "perseverating", meaning to obsess or worry about excessively. I don't think she realizes she made it up and the best part, everyone could clearly understand it. She described someone described as "perseverating" about depressing/violent news seen on television. A mashup of "persevere" and "peruse"?
Least favorite thing today:
Having someone jack-in-the-box at my desk and want checks at 3:55. What...you had no idea at any time today you needed a check? Bullshit.
Neutral:The strangely intimate relationship I have with our insurance rep. You know how if you're little late on a payment and a company contacts you to see when you'll be making payment and you say it will be tomorrow, most companies just ask you to let them know the check number and when you're sending it out? Our insurance rep offered to stop by and pick it up personally.
Which is just kind of embarrassing so I insisted on being the one to walk (well drive) it over.
By the way, this is also the woman who knew exactly when I went on vacation and called our payroll person, "Dolphinish is on vacation. Will payment still be going out?"
(By the way, if you're curious, the payment she's calling about is for
a strikingly paternalistic service they provide for a number of employers on Cape. Someone can purchase their auto or homeowner's insurance thought this insurance company, but rather than paying for it conventionally, it's paid for via a small deduction out of each paycheck. Handy if you don't have a lot of ready cash or are just inept at handling money.)