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I Need Your Help with Some Junk Mail

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Today's snail mail brought us our edition of the Nashville English First petition, which Eric Crafton is using as an end-around last year's mayoral veto in order to force Metro employees never to speak any other language to help people out.

How Much Attention Do You Need?

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More and more we’re continuously getting bombarded for our attention. Email, snail mail, cell phones, instant messaging, invitations to join yet another social network, business demands, bills-paying are all vying for our time and are all coming from and through people from everywhere in the world.
Attention is the cognitive process [...]

Kind of Cryptic

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The first I've heard of this meeting a week from tomorrow was in reading the following snail-mail notice arriving today:

So like I said…

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I dealt with a situation on Tuesday where a person I was playing phone tag with just couldn’t “get” what I was trying to communicate to them.

While leaving this person the third voicemail of the day, I caught myself saying this: “So like I said, if you could just…” and I went on to tell them the same exact thing that I told them during the two previous voicemails.

How Much Does That Paper Cost?

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Dear Nashville Rescue Mission,

Stop sending me junkmail.

You do some really good things at your place, and that's why I gave you a little bit of money last year. But every time you send me those envelopes stuffed with paper, the odds of me giving you anything else are greatly decreased.

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