Email to: Blaire, Alison
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xp_communicationFrom: al-Rashid, Haroun
To: Blaire, Alison
Subject: A few things.
One: I've asked you this before, and I'm going to ask you this again - will you PLEASE pick up your random piles of books and clothes that you like to leave strewn all over the place? I kicked your copy of A Critique of Pure Reason across the room, and with me, we got lucky I didn't put it through the wall.
Two: Have you seen my blue blueprint tube that has the new fuel-pump specs? I could have sworn that I left it next to my desk with the others, but it wasn't there this morning when I went to retrieve it. I have a meeting with Scott and Charles this afternoon, and I need those blueprints! I think Miles may have been playing near my desk, you could try asking him.
Three: You left the dregs of tea in the kettle again. It's going to corrode if you keep doing that.
Salaam,
Haroun
To: Blaire, Alison
Subject: A few things.
One: I've asked you this before, and I'm going to ask you this again - will you PLEASE pick up your random piles of books and clothes that you like to leave strewn all over the place? I kicked your copy of A Critique of Pure Reason across the room, and with me, we got lucky I didn't put it through the wall.
Two: Have you seen my blue blueprint tube that has the new fuel-pump specs? I could have sworn that I left it next to my desk with the others, but it wasn't there this morning when I went to retrieve it. I have a meeting with Scott and Charles this afternoon, and I need those blueprints! I think Miles may have been playing near my desk, you could try asking him.
Three: You left the dregs of tea in the kettle again. It's going to corrode if you keep doing that.
Salaam,
Haroun
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Date: 2005-06-21 02:32 pm (UTC)From: Alison
Subject: re: A few things.
One: Oh for - it was just a few things, it's hardly a big deal! I was going to pick them up, I just had to go meet Jay and I couldn't afford to be late yesterday for that – you know I prefer to arrive in advance for student meetings and all that! If you'd give me time to pick up instead of lying in wait to ambush the first thing that I set down and... Did you kill my book?
Two: I saw that yesterday before I went to class and it wasn't on the desk but near the door. I think. Look behind it? (And Miles does not touch the things on your desk. He knows they're your things. Your desk things are safe.)
Three: I forgot. And if it ever does, then we'll just get a new one, that's all.
Alison
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Date: 2005-06-21 02:39 pm (UTC)To: Alison
Subject: That's not the point.
One: You knew about your meeting with Jay in advance, correct? So you could have prepared yourself ahead of time and spared yourself the rush this morning.
Two: I'll go check there now.
Three: That's _not the point_. The point is to do things correctly so you won't _need_ to keep buying new kettles because you're too lazy to clean it out properly when you are done with it.
Salaam,
Haroun
Reply Email
Date: 2005-06-21 03:19 pm (UTC)From: Alison
Subject: Arg!
One: Yes, I did – he booked it the previous day and I didn't – wait, this isn't about yesterday? Oh come on, it wasn't that bad this morning! It was just a few things! You'd think the room was a dumpster all the time the way you go on about it!
Two: Fine!
Three: Gnr! First you tell me to clean the kettle, then you have a fit when I do and tell me to stay away from it for all times because I 'ruined' the pot's flavor and it has to be redone all over again and then you go on about layers and stuff now that I don't clean it out you go grr at me again? It's not like I need instructions on how to clean out a simple kettle already!
Alison
Re: Reply Email
Date: 2005-06-21 03:30 pm (UTC)To: Alison
Subject: Don't arg at me!
One: It's both days, actually. You wouldn't have to scurry around like a madwoman if you'd just put in five or ten minutes worth of planning. You don't see _me_ scurrying, and my schedule is just as full as yours.
Two: I just double-checked. It fell behind a speaker. I'm good for my meeting, thank you for pointing out my error. I won't make it again.
Three: Go reread the directions I gave you. You empty it but you _don't scrub it_. Last time you scrubbed it. This time you left too much in to season the pot correctly. You want to just leave the dregs of the pot, not a good two fingers or so worth. I can show you when we're both in the room if you'd like.
Salaam,
Haroun
Re: Reply Email
Date: 2005-06-21 03:57 pm (UTC)To: Haroun
Subject: ARG!!!
One: I do not scurry! Scurrying lacks grace and I have plenty of grace, thank you very much! And picking up can wait if I have other things to do, that's all. I always get around to it eventually. I'm not a neat freak set-everything-aside-as-soon-as-it's-there type, that's all. >:(
Two: Okay.
Three: There were no directions! And - nevermind. You know what? Fine. I will never touch the kettle again. How's that?!
Alison
Re: Reply Email
Date: 2005-06-21 04:02 pm (UTC)To: Alison
Subject: I told you to stop that!
One: You do too scurry! You were in a rush, and when you're in a rush you forget things. You get sloppy. And what is wrong with wanting to keep an area neat, clean, and tidy? You never know when that sort of thing can pay off big. You can do it - I've seen your office and the Music room. So what's different about here?
Three: There were too directions. I've attached them to this email for your reading pleasure.
And stop that. You're not four, and I expect that sort of a comment from Leyu or Miles, not from a grown woman worth north of seven figures. Act your age.
Salaam,
Haroun
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To: Alison
Subject: I told you to stop that!
One: You do too scurry! You were in a rush, and when you're in a rush you forget things. You get sloppy. And what is wrong with wanting to keep an area neat, clean, and tidy? You never know when that sort of thing can pay off big. You can do it - I've seen your office and the Music room. So what's different about here?
Three: There were too directions. I've attached them to this email for your reading pleasure.
And stop that. You're not four, and I expect that sort of a comment from Leyu or Miles, not from a grown woman worth north of seven figures. Act your age.
Salaam,
Haroun
Attachment: <Tea Directions.LaTeX.txt>
Re: Reply Email
Date: 2005-06-21 05:34 pm (UTC)To: Haroun
Subject: I'll arg if I want to.
One: It doesn't matter! It's just STUFF! And it's not the same with the office and the music than it is with the rest of my things!
Three: Ok, fine. I checked. There were directions.
Alison
Re: Reply Email
Date: 2005-06-21 05:50 pm (UTC)To: Alison
Subject: And you're still acting like you're a child.
One: NO! There is _no_ difference! It's all the same!
Haroun