À la Super Eggplant, currently, I am…

Eating: Doing way more drinking than eating. Liquid calories, they’re delish.

Making: The last of the Fab Five hats. Two baby boy quilts. Whatevs.

Reading: I just finished one GREAT and one pretty good book (“Little Bee” by Chris Cleave and “City of Glass” by Cassandra Clare) and today I’m going to start “Then We Came to the End” by Joshua Ferris (Dad’s and my challenge book for April).

Watching: BStarG. I went back to the beginning again. There are some nice resonances to the very first five eps or so in the finale. It’s nice to go back. Also I am loving this season of Lost. Sawyer is awesome*.

Listening to: An AWESOME* album I bought in Dublin. Mick Flannery “White Lies”. Over and over. Particularly “Wait Here”. Swoon.

Failing at: Being cooperative instead of confrontational. (This may be a bit of an in-joke. But I trust you can figure it out. And honestly, I’m not interested in NOT failing at that. At all.)

*This month’s most overused word. Odd, since there’s very little AWESOMEness happenin’ here. If any.

A Tale of Two Cities

Altering phone service. 65 minutes, seven transfers:

Dear AT&T,
do you have job openings in customer service?
Because the people working there right now? SUCK.
If I did my job that badly, I WOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED A LONG TIME AGO.
I am now being transferred to the SEVENTH person this morning.
You. Suck.

Altering cable service. Two minutes, no transfers:

Dear Comcast,
Your customer service today was EXCELLENT.
Not just in contrast to the suckass service of AT&T but even on its own merits.
In and out in two minutes flat, no transferring me 87 times to other people just as incapable.
Wonderful.
Thanks so much and I’m seriously considering transferring anything I do through AT&T to you instead.