The jealous wife
“My wife’s jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.”
What kind of genius are you?
If you’d like to test what kind of a genius you are, take a look at this article here (link to inc.com) and then look at your desk. Are you more like Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Virginia Woolf or Charles Darwin? I’m definitely a creative person! 🙂
Are you a lucky devil?
No, you can’t say that your colleague is a ‘lucky mushroom’. That won’t work in English. But what you can say is that he or she is a ‘lucky devil‘. And if you can’t remember that, just say, “Oh lucky you” or “You are lucky”.
It’s a topic that Deutsche Welle has written about here.
One point I’d like to make, though. You can’t say that that your colleague ‘has luck’. ‘Glück haben’ is German! 😉
To use or not to use laser pointers …
…. that is the question.
I’ve attended several presentations where the presenters have used laser pointers. I’ve not really given it much thought until now. However, after having watched SMART as Hell‘s short and sweet video clip, I’ve come to the conclusion that they aren’t really helpful at all. The idea is to make good slides so that you don’t need this piece of equipment.!
More on closing an email or letter
A lot of people are not sure about this here. When you close an email or a letter, you only have to capitalise the first word.
So we write:
Best wishes
Kind regards
Yours sincerely.
On the importance of saying thank you
Gertrude Stein once said, “Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.” And William Arthur Ward, along the same lines, said, “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
So how can we express our gratitude? Well, we can simply say ‘thank you’ or write a thank you note. Isn’t today a good day to start practising?
