1) the division of the company i work for includes the word "services". it's printed all over everything we send out. it's in our email signatures, etc. it's "services". #!$^%$ insists on calling it "servicing" as some sort of, what he thinks is, subversive maneuvering. makes me want to punch every surface in the office. such a small thing but such is life in an office environment.
2) how people here (the midwest generally maybe) begin to lament the end of summer & talk about fall STARTING IN JULY. for
weeks now i've been hearing people say "well, now that summer is almost over" and "we're getting ready to close the cabin before the end of the season" and "i hate that summer is so short".
now that it's the end of August, PEOPLE ARE ALREADY TALKING ABOUT WINTER
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