monday june 16

today i phoned a job agency i'd been to last week to follow up on a potential job opening they'd told me about last week. intending to ask for a certain extension number when i called, to speak to someone named ashley, i was thrown off when the person who answered the phone identified herself as ashley. not wanting to stray from my plan, i plowed ahead and asked to be forwarded to the extension, stumbling over the number before eventually getting it out, to which she replied that that was, indeed, her own extension. at this point, i chuckled and said "oh! right! ashley!" as if i was just realizing now that of course it was her i was talking to already, when in fact i'd been aware of that fact the whole time. all in all, it definitely ranked among my most awkward exchanges of the day.