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Friday, July 28, 2006

Joggin' Gorgeous Summer

I held it in my hand. On the cover page there was a stain, and on others --- the marks of a long day's coffee. It consisted of only a few pages, but I held off for so long. It's light and simple, and just looking at it you wouldn't know it had the most intricate and intimate details of my life tucked neatly inside of it's tattered stocked pages. I was scared really, of trying again. Here I sit with my happy tripped out music (The Islands) and think that maybe, just maybe everything will work out in the end. Either that or I just had too much Raspberry Fudge Swirl. Either way, it's on it's way now and there isn't a thing I can do about it.

...and now for the grand word of the day!

surreptitious \suhr-uhp-TISH-uhs; suh-rep-\, adjective:
1. Done, made, or gotten by stealth.
2. Acting with or marked by stealth.

The monitoring is not surreptitious; on the contrary, the defendant and his or her attorney are required to be given notice of the government's listening activities.
-- John Ashcroft, "National Security; Prevention of Acts of Violence and Terrorism", Federal Register 66, no. 211, October 26, 2001

While men's appetites are driven by availability, women's are often driven by cravings. A dab of chocolate here, a pinch of sugar there, and some surreptitious
-- Wendy Hubbert, "The skinny on male/female dieting", Redbook, October 1, 2001
midnight Dairy Queen runs lurk behind a woman's oh-so-virtuous bran breakfast, salad lunch, and grilled fish dinner.

Now she made a surreptitious glance toward the doorway into the hall.
-- Naeem Murr, The Boy

5 comments:

grey squirrel said...

ok, that was weird.

grey squirrel said...

Come on! You KNOW it's all gonna work out in the end. Maybe not the way you anticipate or expect, but it WILL work out. Just keep following your advice to me.

grey squirrel said...

Come on! You KNOW it's all gonna work out in the end. Maybe not the way you anticipate or expect, but it WILL work out. Just keep following your advice to me.

The Overworked Barista said...

Saying it more than once never makes it true, you've so just cancelled yourself out.

How can you disbelieve me so?

grey squirrel said...

shall I say it again? Maybe 3 times will make it true. Or I'll just say twice that it's not gonna work out, your whole life will be screwed, and you'll die an old and bitter man scowling at his dreams from his youth. maybe that would work. maybe I should just be quiet. You know, that's the best idea I've had yet. So, don't worry too hard, do trust God's love, His wisdom, and His perfect timing, and I'll leave you alone.