neroli.108: Time Flies: or, Are You Having Fun?

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----Howard Gardner, from The Disciplined Mind, published in 1999

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Time Flies: or, Are You Having Fun?

Dear reader, it's been a week of Very Long Days.
I hope that you've been well.
Last night, we had takeout from our favorite local Chinese joint.
My fortune cookie told me that I was ready to take on the world.
Don't you just love it when that happens?
Be well, dear reader. I'll talk with you soon.

7 comments:

captain corky said...: Kick some ass Neroli! My days have been pretty long too. I need a vacation. ;); October 15, 2007 at 4:34 AM
neroli said...: Captain, I almost didn't recognize you: I'm so accustomed to you in green :)!
What a great way to start the week, with an admonition from the Captain---thanks!; October 15, 2007 at 5:06 AM
AfKaP said...: I agree with CC. Long days or not it's time to KA!; October 15, 2007 at 12:45 PM
Anonymous said...: My days have not been so long lately. This is my time to appreciate that fact.; October 15, 2007 at 4:19 PM
neroli said...: Well, dear Artist, that settles it then :)!

Dear Min, last week was such a confluence of freakish circumstances...they really normally aren't that way. To counter any ill effect, I put in for a day off tomorrow :)!; October 15, 2007 at 6:01 PM
Pelicano said...: I actually save all my fortunes in an ugly little coffee-cup that someone gave me and...wait, no. I finally gave that cup to charity didn't I? OK...so where did I put all my fortune-cookie fortunes then? [does a quick search of the room] Ah! I put 'em in a little tin. (it matches my colour-scheme)

A few years ago- well, more like 11 or so- I had a BF who ended up in the slammer for a month. I stuffed all of my saved-up fortunes, along with a card, into an envelope and sent it to the jail...
Well! He wasn't pleased. :-( Apparantly the warden or whatever first accidentally spilled them all on the floor of his office, and had to pick them up...and then had to read every one of them because they have to intercept and read all the mail. So...by the time my BF recieved the envelope, the warden was very not-happy...

But I meant well by it! :-); October 16, 2007 at 4:57 AM
neroli said...: Dear Pel, why am I not surprised that you save your fortune-cookie fortunes, too?

I love your story. Whatever that Whatever-Warden might have thought, it was a generous and romantic missive.
(He (warden) chose the correct career path, yes?---how can you have fortune scattered all about you for the picking and be not-happy?!?); October 16, 2007 at 6:08 AM