On my way to the restroom I realized how many more excuses I'd have to come up with if these dates continued going so well.
Geographic/Ethnic Excuse: How many of us have heard, "You have to understand, she's Italian/from New Jersey/from Philadelphia/clannish" - or one of a thousand other excuses that have to do with cultural, geographical or ethnic background?
Mostly, it was embarrassing to find how I had internalized so many excuses for why my life was the way it was why I felt the way I did.
As I read through page after page of worries and complaints, anxieties and anger, I could see how many times I had made excuses for people who weren't showing enough respect, interest and love.
A vortex of time could be lost counting how many wrong tones and semi-excuses are crammed into that mincing sentence.
"They manage hundreds of people, and, at the end of the day, how many actually make it?" StylistMimi excused herself in order to live-stream, holding up her phone to give her followers a panorama of the room and narrating the proceedings in a syrupy voice.
The solverdom's reaction then was quite negative over quite a long period, evoked by the treasured email that I still have before me: 'How many times have you made pathetic excuses and tried to shuffle the blame onto someone else? You, sir, are unfit to run a whelk stall.
"And, excuse me, but how many of your guys speak Arabic?" There were only half a dozen Arabic speakers in the F.B.I. contingent, and even O'Neill acknowledged that their competence was sometimes in question.
It asked its respondents how many books they read a year (excuse the quality/perspective: these photos were taken from my seat): And also how much time they spend reading compared to other activities like watching TV, listening to music and browsing the internet: When asked how they prefer to read, 73% said a printed book, 27% said ebooks and 5% said audiobooks.
