Susan Dennises

[susandennis]

Susan Dennis is not an unusual name - it's not Mary Smith but it's not Tabitha Glockbreaks either.  And, for some odd reason, a fair number of Susan Dennises worked at IBM when I did. I believe the high count was 5.  Towards the end of my IBM time, I even worked for a woman named Susan Dennis.

Personnel just had no way to deal with that. I was forever getting secret shit like salary files for all of Susan Dennis' employees and for her.  I used to swear that I didn't open the files.

This morning I got an email from a woman who says she is cleaning out old files and found a note from Susan Dennis from Endicott and was I that Susan Dennis?  She says she was Doris Bowen who worked in Endicott in personnel after she worked in the cafeteria in Charlotte.  Totally wrong Susan Dennis but.... I remember her from Charlotte!!

She was in charge of getting the lunch menus published every day on the bulletin boards around the plant.  I was in charge of those bulletin boards!!!  I remember few people but I totally remember her.  She was great fun to work with.  What a treat to get a misdirected note.

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I thought for sure that I'd be too sore to even move this morning - I really was last night.  But this morning I am much better.  I still didn't go to the swim class. I don't have to. I didn't want to. So I didn't.  Plus my knee is scabby and I wanted to give it a head start before I subject it to an hour of water.  I'll probably go on Monday.

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I woke up this morning to see that Zoe had been busy during the night.  A potato that was on the stove was on the kitchen floor?? A potato??? And a few other things had been filed from where they were to the floor.  But, really a potato?

I can here her now playing with her toys in the living room.  Betty's in here begging for more breakfast.

All is good.

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I think I'm going to go out and run a couple of quick errands this morning then home.  The baseball game is on TV this afternoon.

But, first, I need to give Betty her 'seconds' before she has a heart attack.

Comments

[lycomingst.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the fall left no long-lasting effects. 8 ]

[anita-margarita.livejournal.com]

Phone call I got in 2008:
Caller: "Is this Barbara Rice?"
Me:(suspiciously, because I'm sure this is a sales call) "Yeessss....."
Caller: "This is Barbara Gordon calling from Williamsburg, Virginia."
(Pause)
Me: (somewhat more cheerfully, since this doesn't seem to be a sales call) "Yes?"
Caller: "I'm calling to find out if you're the Barbara Rice who owns a sculpture in the Colonial Williamsburg Museum. Is that you?"
Me: (dumbfounded)"No, that would be lovely if I was, but no, it's not me."
Caller: "Oh, sorry for the call, thank you."

[susandennis]

Ohhh don't we hope she found the sculptress?

[anita-margarita.livejournal.com]

I really hope she wasn't the one stuck with the task of calling every Barbara Rice in the country.

[johncomic.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize that you know Tabitha! Small world...

[susandennis]

Yeah... we went to school together back in ... never.

[cloud-hands.livejournal.com]

Hi! I think this is the first time I have commented here. I used to have two cats that would play soccer with anything light enough for them to move. They would have thought a potato was a really cool ball. Their favorite thing to play with though was my disposable razors. I quickly learned to always make sure the caps were on them. They would play soccer with them until they got stuck someplace, usually under the couch. When I moved we found a dozen razors, a bunch of change and several Christmas tree ornaments under there.

[susandennis]

Welcome!!

Zoe is just now starting to get brave enough to experiment with stuff around the house. This was not a small potato. She had to have worked at it.

It's been a while since I've had one young and energetic enough to play soccer. I'm guessing that in a month, the area under the furniture will be archaeological dig.

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

I used to work at a place where the HR manager and I had the same name. I would get lots of good mail and calls - before electronic communication.

[susandennis]

Ha! Another one. Love it. But, at least you had a better chance of NOT getting secret stuff from HR. At the time it happened to me, we were about half electronic and half paper and phone. I have to say, I enjoyed it a little way too much.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

My home page is called "The [REAL NAME] Identity Test: Is this the [REAL NAME] you are looking for?" That gives me a hook to hang my various interests, etc., on: "Check these characteristics". At the bottom is a long list of same-named people who I am not, and people with the same last name who I'm not related to.

[susandennis]

:)

[rejectomorph]

I've had cats who would snag potatoes and play with them, but most cats prefer walnuts, which are not only lighter but make such an entertaining racket when batted across a kitchen floor.

[catmomma.livejournal.com]

I have a friend with a cat they always have a fresh potato for. They joke the cat is Irish. She kicks the potato all around the kitchen and it is her favorite toy