This LiveJournal post floored me. I transcribed part of it to an index card I keep in my planner for easy reference:
Three-part messages are not some sort of major philosophical construct — they’re just a tool. Like a hammer, or a pencil. Their purpose is to let you request a change in someone’s behavior [...]
My reply to the MSG’s frustrated, rhetorical query: “do you understand what about WIRING money takes 2-4 business days?”
the wiring thing has plagued me for years. it is faster for me to send my dad a check via USPS and for that check to clear his bank and mine than it is for me [...]
If napping is bad, why does it feel o so good? Curling up in my flannel sheets underneath my velvet down comforter and handmade afghan … yum.
But nightmares that occur during naps — napmares, I call them — are the worst. There’s not enough time for slow-on-the-uptake lucid dreamers to do anything.
My [...]
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