A six-minute call six months in the making
Oh, hi friends!
My Internet bill increased the other day.
So I put on my longterm to-do list “call Spectrum to find out why / sweet talk them into getting a better deal.”
Of course, this task never seemed urgent. So I moved it. Week after week.
Yesterday, I finally called. The nice woman on the phone said my bill had increased back in February. February. (My year-long new customer promotion had ended, in case you were wondering.)
Which means this little to-do item had been lingering for six months. SIX MONTHS OF MY LIFE.
And guess what? My sweet-talking was sour. Didn’t work. The price will stay the same.
I had low-key been thinking about this task for six months.
I was on the phone call for six minutes.
A good reminder to myself to do the thing — and get it over with.
A (basket) case of the Thursdays.
Photo by Vadim B from Pexels
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Love this beautiful profile of 96-year-old Françoise Gilot, once a muse and model for Picasso, and who now paints daily in her Upper West Side home and studio — and has a new monograph of her work coming out soon.
The New York Public Library is publishing classic novels on Instagram Stories with beautifully illustrated images. Taking an action familiar to most people (tapping through Stories) but then sneaking in quality fiction? This is everything I love; this is genius.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara