The Peak of My Anal-Retentiveness

I actually had to send the following in an email to my assistant:

I've noticed some papers are folded over in the files because they were hole-punched too far to one side. This just makes files bulkier over time. Please make sure your hole puncher is adjusted so the pages don't stick out or fold over. Thank you.

I swear I'm not a micro-manager! But she's been sticking documents in files so they stick out or fold over and it's making the files so bulky and everytime I want to read something, I have to unfold the side or the edge first, or uncurl it from around the outside of the file folder. I mentioned it once to her already and I felt horrible doing so because it's such a small thing, but my files are a mess because of it. And how hard is it to adjust your hole puncher?

Let's just hope this goes no further.

Internet Dating and Catching Liars

Huge clues the last guy I met lied about his age:

1. He was wearing old school, scuffed, white Reebok high-tops, without any sense of nostalgic fashion irony.

2. He had deep lines in his forehead but not a single fine line around or under his very tight eyes.

3. Finally, the clincher was when he said, "I just got The Internet."

Oy. I shoulda known by the fuzzy photo in his profile.

Friends Don't Let Friends Ride Dirty

From www.marriedtothesea.com

Happy Birthday Month, Leos!

As a flaming lioness myself, I have to say watch out for Leos! We are characteristically fierce and proud, but some of us come incognito in the form of shy wallflowers. Don't be fooled; that feline Leo energy still lurks within.

In honor of August birthdays, Rob Brezny's forecast for Leos this week:

"Travel writer Bruce Chatwin walked around Australia as he researched and meditated on the indigenous people's beliefs about what the land was like in the ancient past. He wrote: 'Aboriginal creation myths tell of the legendary totemic beings who wandered over the continent in the Dreamtime, singing out the name of everything that crossed their path--birds, animals, plants, rocks, waterholes--and so singing the world into existence.' Given the fact that you're now primed to create a new domain or two, Leo, may I suggest the aborigines' approach? You'll infuse everything with extra beauty if you play around with singing it into existence."

You can read the rest of his literate horoscopes at www.freewillastrology.com.

You Are Not Alone