Long-winded.

I am getting ready to head downtown, and the phone rang with a "this is just a survey" call. As a general rule I don't care for the time that telephone surveys take and I tell them I don't have enough time.

This time, I had to interrupt her to do so. I really wanted to get the stuff done that I was trying to get done, and her intro spiel telling this was just a survey and wouldn't take very long went on and on and on without ending. Take a breath, lady. So I finally talked over her, then apologized for it.

It was for the financial services folks at my bank. They're not winning points with me this way, but I like the bank, so I suppose I'll cope. And at least once I said I didn't have time, she dropped the spiel and got off my phone quickly and politely.

Since when is the "not selling anything, survey, not much time" spiel extended and made repetitive to the point of being an aggravation in itself?? I thought the point of that set of lines was to make me want to stay on the phone long enough to actually answer their questions!

Voice Post: BPAL Purchases

Voice Post: And...books

GLEE! Indulgence!

All that fun stuff. Went to Convergence XIII today. More accurately went to the dealer's room, not the con. No laminate required to go in and spend money. Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab was there with four Convergence-only scents, one only available if you'd gone to a fashion show the night before and gotten a card. Fortunately I didn't love that one. I loved two of the other three and liked the third. And rather a lot else. Um. Yeah. I bought bottles. I went back for two more later on, too.

I bought enough bottles that I got a double-handful of frimps - 29, counting both batches (the second was maybe 4-ish), as it happened. Frankly, I scare me.

Then headed up to Powell's where I, ah, spent some time. And some money. Then wandered over to the park blocks, sat down, and read until about 6:15 when I headed up to Ringler's Pub (a McMenamin's location) for the meet'n'sniff. This was a blast - I got to meet a ton of people I might not have otherwise, and I also got to meet solcita. I knew she'd be there and was looking forward to meeting her, but it was especially funny because I came in the door and she was already there and nearly right in front of me. I walked over, waited a moment, and she recognized me. So, so cool to meet her.

The Labbies were there in spite of a very long day vending beforehand. They handed out imps labelled Ah'Duno. Don't ask me what's in it, because Ah'Duno! Dragon's blood, I'm confident of. What else I'm not sure. It's nice and the name is highly amusing. (solcita apparently got the story from Beth, which is over in her LJ. I didn't hear that bit until I got home tonight and read it. :)

When I got home, my Blue Moon order was here. Squee! Though I think my poor nose is overwhelmed right now!

Also, on my previous voicepost, SpinVox transcribed "bag full of books" as "bag full of Bush". For anyone who saw that, I did NOT have a bag full of Bush. Sheesh.