They want to work as much as they can, so they're calling me up at odd hours or they're asking me to stay and work with them.
What I usually encounter from adults (is) people asking me who takes care of me or talking to me as though I were mentally challenged.
Friends emailed me asking if I was OK or if they should cancel their own plans to visit the country.
As the terrible news began to spread, my Facebook feed was filled with messages from people I know telling me they were all right, or asking if someone else had been heard from.
Some come by e-mail, in a note from an artist asking me to view his work, or a press release from an auction house or a museum, or a request by a PR agent to speak with a special client.
Picking up the phone and asking someone to become a client or refer business to me was terrifying.
The usual tactic was to try make me look stupid by asking impossible questions or claiming that I had not answered their question when I clearly had.
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"I get a lot of requests from viewers who have a limited range of motion asking me to split standard controllers in half or downsize a controller so it fits in one hand, " said Ben.
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My friends stopped asking me out because I was always either at work or talking about work.
If you're asking me do I anticipate that the Republican leadership in the House or the Senate suddenly decide that I was right all along and they will adopt a hundred percent of my proposals, the answer is, no, I don't expect that.
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Never having had to look after me, he was now continuously asking Naima whether his son had eaten or if it was bedtime yet.
About a month or so after I left, I got a call from the president of the company asking me how I got so much productivity out of the team.
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At some point a year or two ago, the staff at my local Giant supermarket started randomly greeting me and asking if everything was all right, if I had found everything I needed, if there was anything they could do to make my shopping experience more pleasant.
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As recently as a month ago, journalists were asking me questions about whether Intel was just crushing everyone else in process node technology, leaving them three or four years behind.
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When Gadbois at last turned to me, I was still asking myself if this was a game he played with all his guests or a sign of something more serious, like dementia.
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