TOPIC: Boogers and Expectations

Are you making perfect reports when your boss just wants them on time? Are you making crème brûlée when you should be jumping in a trench? Are wangs and boogers causing problems at work?

This week, Dan and Merlin talk more about expectations – whether you're willing to or not – and the risks of expectations of partners, bosses, and kids.

How can you handle expectations? There aren't a lot of easy answers. As you'd probably expect.

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• middleclasstool - Blog - Something Something Meth Joke
  
• Pre-Cana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Hanlon's razor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
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• Found My Place - Blog
  
• Tales of Wonder - Marvel Masterworks Uncanny X-Men Vol 2 New Ed TP
  
• Confessions of a Car Salesman - Print Friendly
  
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• Prisoner's dilemma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Game theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Found My Place - Blog - Song: "Lost in Space"
  
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• Diplomacy (game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• kung fu grippe - "Public libraries rule." - In Which _Uncanny X-Men Masterworks Vol. 2_ Arrives!
  
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• 'Actors should be treated like cattle.' —Alfred Hitchcock
  

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