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name calling
Sheena asked in a comment below about what to call me. There are many options, some of which are less polite than others. So here's the deal: I'm Rosina or I'm Sara, I answer to both. I've never made a secret of the fact that I publish under two names. Rosina is me; Sara is the secondary me.
Please do not call me Dr. Lippi (which was on Sheena's list). I do have a PhD but I don't use doctor as a title because, well, it seems pretentious to me. Also, I worry that if I did call myself doctor, sometime somebody will slap a scalpel in my hand and ask me to do an emergency procedure. Really, that wouldn't be a good idea. You could ask me to do an emergency etymology or call on me when you're in dire need of an analysis of a confusing sentence, but that's about it.
Okay, in the spirit of complete disclosure, I do sometimes call myself doctor, but only when I'm dealing with difficult hospital personnel who treat everybody like a dolt. Many hospital personnel, in my experience, have their dials turned permanently to the lowest common denominator, and it takes a big jolt to get them to actually look at you and see that you might bring more to the table than that. Amazing what a title will do in that situation.
Still waiting to hear from London; am a little tense.
July 7, 2005 09:23 AM
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Sara and all others waiting for news
you probably all know the comms networks were down/overloaded, but I started to get text messages through on mobile about 7pm London time 7th and e-mails have been coming through (extremely delayed) since about midnight.
So messages are being answered, its just taking time for them to come through.
I hope everyone's news is good when it finally does arrive.
Posted by: Alison at July 7, 2005 06:05 PM
Hi sara,
Hope you hear from your friends soon.
We have a niece in London who works out of the central city, she didn't even know that anything had happened until I e-mailed to see if she was OK.
She is still trying to check if friends who work in the central city are OK.
This whole thing gives me the same numb feeling that I got sitting watching all the dreadful things unfold half a world away on 9/11
Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of all those who have been touched by this thing on whatever level.
Posted by: Sally at July 8, 2005 02:16 AM