Monday, November 25, 2024

Three random things:

1) When I had texted them each a crack that my one (older) (Thai) coworker who's a whiz at the phones had made when me and her were working together, both my one (chubby) (Thai) coworker and my one (newer) (taller) (Thai) coworker loved how I ended the text with not only crying-from-laughter emojis but also "5555555555," which is how people text laughter in (Thai), they had told me, since their word for "ha!" is a homophone of their word for "five."

2) Working on a data set of three -- the one (gay) (Colombian) (graduate student) who I know from around town, and a (younger) (Colombian) (faculty) couple who came into the restaurant once and who I talked with quite a bit -- I have to say that (Colombians) seem to be a very unpredictably touchy people, where they have these small lines that you can easily step across, although their saving virtue is that they all have very transparent faces, so you can easily tell when you've done that, just like you can easily tell if they have a very strong opinion on something you've just said (something that happens quite a bit), even if they're choosing not to express it at that time, although quite often they proceed to do just that, they say exactly what they've been thinking, right then and there, and in very direct and no uncertain terms.

Also, their food seems very bland.

3) A(n awkward) (white) (computer programmer) guy who I know from around town has been unemployed for several months because his firm's recurring government contract got strangely and unexpectedly outbid, and he says from what he's seen of the programming market, he fears there's a recession starting or a silent recession going on... When I told him that I had heard mention I think on the radio of a "white collar recession," he was like, yeah, and he agreed, that's what he sees happening, too.

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