Chaos

Chaos: a state in which one may experience massive confusion and often discomfort.

No, i didn't just join a dictionary definition league, that is just how i would define the word at the moment. Thanks to the Tower of Babel event, I got to experience my own bit of chaos today. Allow me to share.... I was given a list of patients to call to reschedule their doctor's appointment, which had been bumped. I call one and the mom answered first, then handed the phone the the father. I explained why i was calling and that we needed to reschedule. I explained this in what seemed simple terms, having to repeat myself several times. The man spoke English pretty well, but his comprehension did not quite match.

Finally i asked if we could get an interpreter to help us, and thankfully he agreed to it. I got a interpreter on the line and it was really interesting to listen to. With my background noise plus the patient AND interpreter's it was difficult to tell when the interpreter had finished and was talking to me. He had a thick accent so it was almost hard to tell when he stopped speaking his native tongue and began in English! Anyway, it was cool and interesting but TRICKY all at once.
It was rather chaotic, and something very simple turned out to be rather complicated and...chaotic.

I used to think 'chaos' was supposed to be read 'chaw-ose', silly huh? I distinctly remember thinking this while reading a Babysitter's Club book about Claudia, 'wonder what that word means?!' Then one day it finally dawned on me, DUH! That's how you spell chaos!