Hello everyone and welcome back to Middleground.

Hello, hello.

I'm Jo.

I'm Caroline.

And we're glad you're here.

I got asked the other day if I like going by Carol and I actually do.

I always call you C.

Yeah, she does.

But I do that across the board with my friends.

People ask me a lot if me calling Gardner and Rory G and R

is like a safety thing.

And while I think that that's lovely and probably should be I I call everybody in my life

except for Matt. Matt's the only one I don't do that. I feel like M is hard though like M so is

R yeah I think I've decided I'm going to call him row oh that's cute yeah uh I mean I like Rory yeah it's great but I think I'm going to call him row. Oh, that's cute. Yeah. I mean, I like Rory. Yeah. It's great,

but I think I'm going to call him Rowe. And then Rowe and G. Ro and G. But I call all, I call B.

Yeah. J.C. I call J.C. I call J. You. Yeah. I call Colleen C too. All my friends. First letters friends first letters yeah all around it's easy to do that

and i do it to people i don't know online like that are mutuals with me i'm like oh a and i'm like i wonder

if they think it's weird that i maybe it doesn't matter to me i mean if they think it's weird

that's fine we're probably not going to get along very well.

But yeah, anyway.

Really deep diving.

I'm on day 74 of a cold.

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