I've been working too much, and my phone etiquette has gone right out the door. I never answer with 'eddie's crack house' or 'yvette's r'n't' or 'yo' anymore. I love those crazy phrases, the ones that you save for when you know who's calling. I am all corporatized (it's a word now) and only stray from my name to hello as my daily greetings. How imaginative is that? The most excitment I get now is when I change my daily voicemail and get to say 'have a super weekend' or something equally lame, knowing that it's polite and that anyone who is in the know will know that it really means, go get shit faced this weekend and tell me the dirty stories later. The other terrible terrible side affect is I can't break the habit of hitting 9 to dial out no matter what phone I'm on.