11:48 AM me: You're having an overwhelming day at work, don't have a plan B for when transit goes on strike next week, and just realized you lost a pearl in your ring. While in the grand scheme of things, this doesn't add up to much more than a rough day, you're looking for some kind of quick relief. What do you do?
11:49 AM he: One-night stand, definitely.
She laughed, and then thought about how much work it would take to find a one-night stand that was A) not scuzzy and B) not clingy on her lunch hour. Impossible.She met The Girls for lunch outside and clunked her head on the table. Someone had a bag of cherries, a very Jillish thing, and suggested she try shooting the pits for distance. She blew, and frankly, sucked. At 12:30 she announced she was going for a walk. She had an idea that some music therapy would help, and headed for Music Traders, the Village used CD store.
Judy kindly (oh so kindly, given the girl's foul mood) joined her. The girl picked out Collective Soul to sooth her soul, paid, and headed back to the oppressing office.
Upon her return, she smiled at the cupcake on her desk. Someone, not even consciously knowing she was having A Day, had thought of her. That was super nice.Choosing to spend a few extra minutes obsessing over whether "set up" was one word, two words or hyphenated, she missed her bus home.
Finally, she arrived home, grabbed a beer, popped in the new CD, and told the world about her day. The sun was shining, it was the weekend, and Monday, although she was already dreading it, was a safe distance away.
4 comments:
Aw, I feel bad that you had a cruddy day and I was too busy with my own cruddy day to realize it! Even so, I really enjoyed your writing in this post. Hope the weekend is better than your Friday!
(PS Let me know if you still need help with "set up" :)
Okay, here's the challenge. The context is "Set-up fee". If it's an adjective modifying "fee", it should be hyphenated. If you refer to CP Style, and call it a noun (my interpretation being that the whole three word combo is a noun), it's one word. If you refer to the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, it's hyphenated (but I understand that CP Style trumps the COD at Good Wooden Leg). So there, please make something out of that!
Otherwise it would be some kind of "up fee" that was able to be (or not to be) set.
Which reminds me of the word "incunable" which is used (by some people) to refer to a book printed between 1450 and 1500. The plural is "incunabula", so the singular should be "incunabulum" incunable being an object which it is impossible to cune. :)
That's your friendly way of reminding me to return your CD! I kept trying today...really.
There is a special place in my heart for the song December (5th on the CD, interestingly enough). I like bad boys and bad music ;)
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