We have this phrase at work called "Level of Effort". Since theres a lot of planning and coordination involved at this project, often management will ask you for the level of effort a particular task will require. and since we live in the world of high risk, fast pace and text messaging, "Level of Effort" gets called LOE.

FYI, BTW, WRT, RTFM, TPS Reports - there are so many abbreviations already used in day-to-day affairs, adding one more is no big deal really. Plus, I also have to deal with the swarm of technical abbreviations as well: J2EE, JSP, HTML, XML to name just a small fraction of them. But LOE was new to me. Not that managers hadn't asked for estimates on my other projects, they just used different terms for it.

So every so often I will hear someone say something along the lines of "Me and so-and-so met to discuss LOEs for this project" or "They had a meeting to talk about LOEs".
And the first thing that goes through my mind is:

"Who's Eloise?"

my phone's on vibrate for you

My phone's always on vibrate and its always in the right front pocket of whichever pants im wearing. Im so used to feeling that buzzing sensation on the top right side of my thigh. Though sometimes, my muscles will spasm or tingle in a way that will make me think my phone is vibrating. I usually reach down and realize that I dont really have a call. Im not really concerned by it. Im sure its psychologically triggered. and its just a spasm, we all get those right?

But occasionally when Im at home, I'll feel the tingle on my leg and think "oh is that my phone vibrating in my pocket?" and then ill realize that it cant be because im not wearing pants.

bust or move

Here's a tip...when you're in a bar/club and the music is a little loud, when you go tell the girl on the dance floor that she has nice moves, make sure you're loud enough and more importantly, make sure you articulate the M and the V.