To a degree that surprised me, they liked to quiz me about text-book-aberrant behavior and about my unhappy childhood, thinking, once they heard the stories, that this was the way to my heart.
Day after day, I found myself eating into those four hours with other business, beginning late, ending early (text about message about text about laptop) and never feeling mentally removed enough from the flurry of activity which comprised the rest of my day to do any worthwhile creative work.
"You know five, six years ago, with cell phones, we were simply worried about conversations going on when kids should be listening in class, phones ringing and disturbing the teacher while they were trying to teach, but we weren't worried about pictures, we weren't worried about text messages, " he says.
Because audio books are not just about the text, they are about who is reading the text, in most cases skilled performers who can bring the text alive.
Later, he was asked about receiving a text about his movements the night before.
The center has been providing 24-hour text help for two and a half years, fielding about 500 text conversations a month.
Iran, Egypt, India and several other countries have had serious concerns about the text.
The response from France and Russia - the two permanent members who refused to approve a second resolution before the war - to a first draft was on the whole positive, though each had specific worries about the text.
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The point is, there are (another comment on my profile picture) a lot of distractions (Facebook message going into further detail about previous text regarding laptop) to contend with when trying to set aside time for any work that requires deeper thought than snapping off email replies. (Posting new chart on I Love Charts).
Currently, the limit on what can be charged for making a call is around 30p and sending a text about 9p.
She says her college roommate at the University of Georgia started an argument over text about who should clean their apartment.
On the U.S. side, officials say after Mr. Tsarnev was identified it took a week for Russia to provide the FBI with information about the intercepted text messages.
He said many of the three countries' concerns had been taken on board and also noted that the UN Secretary General had spoken "relatively positively" about the new text.
Anyone with something to add can enter a street address and leave a marker on the map at that location, providing a few lines of text about conditions at that spot.
The majority of the sample was able to perform as high as level four (out of five) of the literacy test, meaning they were able to read, comprehend and answer questions about a simple text, and level three in numeracy, i.e. they were able to perform basic arithmetic operations.
Encrypted data, held in a storage box about the size of a text book, will be retrieved about every four to six months.
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Former BP engineer Kurt Mix was charged with deleting text messages about the company's spill response.
Mix was charged last year with deleting text messages about the company's response to the Gulf oil spill.
It gives a rough indication of what a body of text is about.
Give it a Web page from a Spanish newspaper and in about a second the text is converted to English.
One young entrepreneur is Susan Eve Oguya, eagerly telling me about her SMS or text service for Kenyan farmers, MFarm.
You can set up your home page, displaying just about whatever kinds of text and pictures and graphics you'd like, in Soho or Paris.
According to Sprint, a person can send about 30-50 text messages in the 180 seconds it takes, on average, to hold a voice call.
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But as sure as darkness follows the light, spam text is about to cloud the cleanest online communications channel making it that much less trustworthy and valuable.
In an April interview with the China Daily newspaper, Mr. Wan said he arranged to receive daily text messages about the company's efforts to quarantine and track pigs.
The repeat referendum is about the same treaty text, but since last year EU leaders have given specific commitments on issues which made some Irish voters nervous last time.
"Defense counsel asked the boy completely irrelevant and repetitive personal questions about whether he sends text messages, whether he send text messages from his phone, and whether he 'tweets, '" they said.
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