Today With Patty – March 30, 2007

by Patty

I went to a wonderful event yesterday called the Triangle Tea Society. This was high tea, the real thing, with finger sandwiches and pastries and scones with clotted cream. It was a “by invitation only” group, and I was incredibly impressed with the caliber of women who were there and frankly a little intimidated. It did keep occurring to me to ask what the heck I was doing there, but I figured hey, if they did not know any better to let me in, I would just kept my mouth shut.

I have a treat for you today. Ryal’s mom Nancy Curtis, who is one of the best moms I have ever seen, always sends him these amazing care packages, and since she sends them directly to the office, everyone is excited to open the package to see what we get. Will it be Girl Scout cookies, Peeps, local newspapers from Michigan? So this time, Ryal opened the package full of wonderful Easter candy, and lo and behold there is a big Ziploc bag full of – drum roll please – old love letters sent to him by girls in grade school. There must have been 50 of them. So of course we all pounced on this, and we now have another new MMI tradition – we read one of Ryal’s love letters at our weekly team meeting. We have scanned this week’s love letter with the kitten on the note card so that you can read the undying love (and veiled threat) from a little girl named Tracy. Apparently she was an older woman, because she was in sixth grade while Ryal was in fifth. Who knew that Ryal was such a stud back then?

Speaking of Ryal, I had a wonderful lunch at P.F. Chang’s, and Ryal is at his desk right now enjoying the leftovers. The boy will eat anything. I must teach him now that it is probably not a good idea to leave the leftovers on your desk for three hours, and that you might want to consider putting it in the refrigerator. Just a tip.

And speaking of tips, our applicant tip for the day is to follow directions. Whether you realize it or not, when a potential employer asks for you to submit info in a certain way, oftentimes it is because they are trying to determine if you are capable of following directions. So, when we ask you to paste your resume into an e-mail, do not send it as an attachment, because that demonstrates that you are not paying attention.

Do not send photos either, because Beth really pushes for the cute young men who apply. We are comparing her to Mrs. Robinson from The Graduate and have nicknamed her “Dirty Old Lady.”

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