don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity
It is a commonplace, but I'm not sure it is a true commonplace. There is a hell of lot of malice in the world, much of it held by people who are also stupid. Or maybe it is a matter that sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
You know, my unpacking might be going better if I weren't okay with living in disarray.
You know, my unpacking might be going better if I weren't okay with living in disarray.
substitute cleaning for unpacking and it could be me!
I don't get what's wrong with that list. Is he supposed to like what I like?
Oh, he just has the X-Files on there because he's doing the alphabet.
You know, my unpacking might be going better if I weren't okay with living in disarray.
Me too. Or i might just be more stressed, hard to say. I've only lived in this house for not quite 5 years, i'm sure I'll finish unpacking eventually.
BTW, I can probably abandon my disarray and not-yet-put-together furniture to help assemble some of yours at some point.
Wow, that was a crazy tennis match.
It really was. Best tennis we're likely to see this year.
One interesting piece of trivia they mentioned: the semi between Nadal and Federer is the first match ever where both players have won at least ten Grand Slam titles. (Nadal's on ten, Federer sixteen.)
My neighbor's band was playing "Message in a Bottle" for a few hours. Now they seem to be trying to work out some chord sequence, but I don't recognize it -- they keep playing about three measures of something, then stopping, then playing it again with something slightly changed, and so on.
Oh, he just has the X-Files on there because he's doing the alphabet.
Oh, ha!! I didn't catch that. That makes much more sense.