Dear So and So

[trickytiger]

Dear Goddesses Who Control Physical Therapy School Admissions:


Pllleeeeeeeaaaaaaaassse, oh please oh please oh please

let that soon-to-be-here letter in the mail from PT School be big and fat and welcoming...... not small and skinny and denying.

Oh please oh please oh please. I live, eat, and breathe physics, physiology, psychology and anatomy, I'm living on Top Ramen, I make literally 1/5 what I used to, I have no social life, I LIVE WITH MY PARENTS FOR GOD'S SAKE,

can't you cut a girl a break? I have tossed caution to the wind and am working my little hind end off to achieve this goal, and I'm a wee bit nervous. So see what you can do.

[Brandy]

Dear Future Presidents (no, not those ones...lol),

Thank you for the Britney Spears Dance Remix of Piece of Me. Yes, I'm 13 years old with my addiction to this song. http://youtube.com/watch?v=qQ-HmDmjkP8&feature=related

Brandy...who swears this is the only song from crazy Britney that she likes. REALLY!

[indysteel]

To the editor of cycling club's newsletter:

It was very nice of you to thank by name all of the people who served as ride leaders in 2007, but you unfortunately left my name off the list. Yet you managed to list the three other women who served as my co-leaders. How'd that happen exactly?

So, it literally was a thankless job.

[KnottedYet]

Dear Indysteel,

Thank you for being a ride leader. I helped my cycling coach (rode sweep) on a couple rides, and truly I had never realized how much *work* leading a ride is. She was dashing all over the place, it wasn't just a bike ride for the ride leader.

[Geonz]

Dear indysteel,
thank you for leading your ride! As a newsletter editor, I've been known to leave a name off... I'd give you an extra boost the next time (but I'd also have gone through my days of the week and the rides and checked 'em off before publishing..) oops, I better go and do our winter one now! THanks for the reminder...

[indysteel]

Dear indysteel,
thank you for leading your ride! As a newsletter editor, I've been known to leave a name off... I'd give you an extra boost the next time (but I'd also have gone through my days of the week and the rides and checked 'em off before publishing..) oops, I better go and do our winter one now! THanks for the reminder...

Thanks Knotted and Geonz!!! I felt really silly getting mad last night when I saw my name excluded from the newsletter, but being a ride leader at our club involves putting a route(s) together (our has three different lengths from 18 to 65 miles), marking the routes with painted Dan Henrys, preparing a map, buying food and supplies for 100 plus riders, getting everybody signed in the day of the ride, and manning two SAG stops along the way for the duration of the ride. This was the first time we'd done a ride and it was, quite frankly, like herding cats. So, I was sort of peeved (sniff, sniff) that everyone else got thanked but me.

The good news is that I'll live!!!!

[mimitabby]

Indy; you really DID do a lot. I'm impressed. There's absolutely nothing wrong with sending the editor a note (I'm an editor too) and saying, uh, you forgot me, i did the crazy kats ride and sagged for bla bla too.
Next issue, they'll put something in to the effect "WE FORGOT INDY!!"

[Flybye]

Dear Admissions Committee,

You will be receiving my application for the Masters in School Counseling in the next day or two. Please make the right decision, which of course, is to invite me for an interview. Once there, please be so overtaken with my charm and academic ability that you put my application in the "yes" pile and accept me to study with your program in the fall.

Thank you very much!

And Dear trickytiger,

Great Job, woman!! Yeah-hooo!!!

[SouthernBelle]

let that soon-to-be-here letter in the mail from PT School be big and fat and welcoming...... not small and skinny and denying.

My acceptance to law school letter was one page. Don't let that old tale fool ya.

[Wahine]

My PT acceptance letter was one page. Here's hoping it comes soon!!

[Geonz]

Dear you.

This is just silly. Let me see your fireplace now, before it's done. Let me see *you.* Not on a bike ride. Not on a group thing. Just you and me.

And let that acceptance letter come!!!! (But keep us posted one way or 'tother.)

[indysteel]

My acceptance to law school letter was one page. Don't let that old tale fool ya.

Mine, too. They don't send any other information until later in my experience. SB--what kind of law do you practice--if you practice?

Good luck, Trickytiger! I hope you get in!

[Blueberry]

Yep. Undergrad packages were large because they included potential information about grants. Law school acceptance was 1 page with you pay XXX written under the "we are pleased to inform you."

Sue-

That really is a big deal! Our ride leaders (sometimes) sweep and are responsible for handing out cue sheets and getting liability waivers. It's each to her own for food, though....

CA

[Blueberry]

Dear Co-Worker-

Just because you have kids and *have* to leave to pick them up doesn't mean you should *always* dump after hours work on me at the last minute. You could at least ask if I have time right now to do it (I don't). I do have plans after work (which I will now have to cancel as usual). Thanks so much for asking.

CA

[SadieKate]

Dear CA_in_NC, why do you have to do the after hours work? Just state that you have other plans also. You do not need to say what those other plans are. No one's business but yours if it's only to go home to a bubble bath. Your darling co-worker needs to learn to plan her own workload and there's no time like the present. Children are not an excuse for special employee privileges.

Been there, done that conversation with my bosses.