6 in 10 People are Undiagnosed as being Retarded

The reason I haven't kept up on my posts in these recent days is because I've been really busy. I'm the volunteer coordinator for Utah Gay Pride and I'm in charge of receiving volunteer applications, scheduling volunteers, and communicating with them.

I've learned a lot about myself through this job. Brian gets mad at me sometimes because I'm so anal about email etiquette. I believe email should be formatted in a certain way, never have misspelled words and should be grammatically correct. I realized that I'm this way because I've communicated with so many people (strangers) by email over the years that I know how stupid people sound on email. When you write emails very informally, I think you are stupid. Always address me by name, use different paragraphs for different thoughts, and close by saying "thanks" or "sincerely" and sign your name.

As the volunteer coordinator for Utah Pride, I've encountered some funny/weird/stupid people. I just received an email without periods. Without periods!! Ahhh! Another volunteer, who has been calling me every week, just sent me his picture with the message, "HEY ,THIS IS ME.JUST SO YOU KNOW DUDE." Not only do I not want his picture, he wrote it in all caps! Argh!

And it's not just emails that I'm getting that annoy me. This one guy left a 5 minute 34 second voicemail in which he said the same thing over and over again.

Oh, what I go through to help a cause...