"I am really grumpy today." I am. I have to work and the article I'm translating, while really interesting and closely related to the projects I worked on in engineering school, is poorly written. There're paragraphs that go on for a whole column. The author doesn't have a good understanding of the comma. And the place holder on my copy stand won't stay up, it just slides to the bottom of the page.
So when the going gets tough, the tough go shopping. Being tough, Oz goes out to run some of the errands we were going to do together and stays out. He returns with chocolate.
Oz is really smart too.
He doesn't usually buy chocolate, so I have to ask. "What inspired you to get chocolate?"
"Oh, I was just walking around the mall after I left Sears and there it was."
"And so you asked yourself, what would Susan Sto Helit do?"
"And I walked in and said, 'Where are your chocolate covered cherries?'"
167 words | September 25, 2005 08:06 PM | Real true story