Self-help's prescriptions for combating the energy-sapping effects of weisure tend to focus on shoring up the dyke against the rising waters of work: switching off your mobile, say, or training your colleagues to expect replies to emails within 24 or 48 hours, not two hours.
People now expect replies on social media, 'in public' and in real time, however hard this is to achieve.
Here are a few ways to find opportunities: Email and call as many clubs as you possibly can, but don't expect replies (you may need to email 50 clubs before receiving a reply!).
While these claims are being pursued through various different courts, most of them in the United States, the common theme is an attempt to seek monetary compensation.Well, what do you expect, reply the claimants, when so many of these cases refer to stolen assets?
It's also very early in its development cycle, so you shouldn't expect Reply to launch anytime soon.
But Cameron, as usual, was not expecting a reply.
I sat back, feeling dirty and not expecting a reply.
My agent asked me to see if Beryl would give me a blurb for my book, so I wrote to her, not even expecting a reply.
When my father moved to Oakland, California, after Hurricane Camille wrecked the Mississippi Gulf Coast, in 1969, strangers he encountered from El Salvador and Mexico and Puerto Rico would spit rapid-fire Spanish at him, expecting a reply in kind.
"What makes us wonder is that if this happened in Israel, and a child or a woman was killed, what would the international reaction be then?" He was not expecting a reply.
