Wednesday, May 26 Staff Care Day

I have been put in charge of monthly Staff Care days for the office.

Since we are on a limited budget, we decided to have a movie day down

in our basement, so then our sole financial responsibility would be

some light snacks for the afternoon.  Our Field Office Director

e-mailed me yesterday asking what I was planning for snacks.  I

responded that Hope and I had already bought some popcorn, chips and

soda, and that on Wednesday (today) we would be sending a messenger

out to get some fruit and puta.  Now understand.  Puto (with an o at

the end) is a common, cheap, Filipino dessert...like a rice muffin.

For any of you that speak spanish....you know puta.....is a bad word.

For some reason I feel like I can type it here because it is a

different language to me.  So I meant to tell the Field Office

Director that we were sending our messenger to get putO, however I

said something comepletely different and inappropriate.  I should have

known since I have training in espanol....however iiiiii messed up.

Thankfully...she thought it was funny...and I never reached the point

of asking the messenger to go bring back some puta because he would

have been pretty disturbed, I'm sure.