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I was really quite annoyed when I sent out a 5 page paper that I'd worked hard on to the rest of my MIS group members to edit, and this one girl sent back an email exclaiming how terrible it was (she said there were too many cliches and to-be verbs).

My thing is, in high school, to-be verbs matter because it's not good to get used to writing with them. They eliminate the possibility of a more detailed sentence and just sound bad. I mean I would know - I'm not bragging but I was in the WC and I've seen the abuse a monstrosity of to-be verbs does to a paper, but do you ever read a book that has zero to-be verbs?

I couldn't write the paper in first person because it is about a company and the company's use of Excel and Access... and well, we're not the company.

I dunno I guess I just wanted to get the ideas right on paper first and then go back and edit grammer and to-be verbs with the group, and it made me uncomfortable that she was so unhappy with it. I've never been able to spit out sentences that are both "to-be-less" and make sense.

As for the cliches, that might have been a mistake on my part because I didn't realize I was writing those.

On a seperate note...

I've been filling in at the reception desk at work because Aurora up and married James... yes, if you know who I'm talking about, you know why I laugh (James is about half her age and half her size) Anyway, Claude volunteered me, which works out because I have an excuse to drop everything and study while I'm up here. Or write in my blog when I need a break - haha.

Funny thing that happened today, this guest came in for an employee here. I paged him and called the employee to come get his client, but I couldn't get ahold of him. So this poor client is like "well give me his cell number and I'll leave him a message to let him know I was here." So here's the client standing on the right side of me on the phone, and out of the corner of my eye, I see the employee step outside of a conference room on my far left. It took me a minute before I realized it and had to rudely interrupt and tell them they were talking to the person on the opposite side of the room. It was funny because I would hear one guy talking and the other guy replying so I started laughing too. Ha, maybe you had to be there.

This is kind of cool - a picture of a memorial for former Michigan Football coach Bo Schembechler made it to Yahoo's Week-In-Photos.