okay so

If you're calling someone in a hotel in Thailand, "Room 419" apparently sounds a lot like "Room 411," and if you manage to say "No, no, Room 419" enough times before they try to transfer you anyway it apparently sounds a lot like "Room 415" and they try to transfer you there, and then they're all confused because there's nobody in that room and they come back to you and you say "Room four-one-nine" very slowly and with extra wide spacing between digits and they finally get it and you try to say "thank you" in Thai but you get your two Thai phrases confused and accidentally say "<hello>" instead and then you think "oh shit that's wrong" and say "er, ah," "<thank you>" hopefully before she gets confused again and then you get kinda flustered and apologise, but in Japanese.

I really shouldn't try to use the telephone. I'm just not very good at it.

this is unexpected

It's snowing. Really hard, too. And sticking to the ground and rooftops and some pavement, just a little. This was Not In The Forecast.

@$&(!!!!!!

Y'know, if you have "No paypal" in your item description and "---> NO PAYPAL <---" in your payment/shipping details and don't list paypal has a payment option in your payment options list, you'd farking think that people would go, "Oh, she doesn't take paypal!"

Then again, maybe they'll get in a bidding war with someone else, run the price up, then immediately after the auction (when eBay actually won't let them try to pay that way) send mail saying, "Oh, I didn't notice you don't take paypal, I'm not paying. Sorry!" Fuck you!

And then the second place bidder said that he has no way of knowing that I didn't collude to jack up the price in the auction with this other guy, essentially accusing me of auction fraud. So now I have to file against the first guy for nonpayment, which I can't do for a week, just to get my fees back.

In other news, I have another interview with another lecturer at the grad school, this one on Friday. We'll see what he thinks. La.