That Moment...

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I totally am not doing a Medieval Fantasy story, nor am I not doing a sci-fi space exploration story. Nope, nope, all fresh and original.

But yes, that drives me nuts as well. I mean, sure first drafts are supposed to suck, but not that badly! Some demonstration of the basics of grammar, spelling and punctuation as well as a grasp on character development and plot arcs would go along splendidly.

 

TMW your facebook friends don't understand that when they share something from another person's page who has their privacy settings up high, you won't be able to see it.

 

TMW...

You spend all day raking your yard and your neighbor across the street starts blaring loud upbeat music and you find yourself bobbing your head to the music. In the middle of the yard, with a rake in your hand. I resisted the urge to play it like a guitar, thankfully.

 

TMW the preposterous itch in your eardrum makes permanent deafness in that ear seem like a pittance.

 

That moment.........when you think your doing better this month to realise you were looking at the account balance and NOT the available balance..........

 

that moment when you realise that this university shindig is actually happening and that you've already had an offer (eek!) i just need to get my s*** together and get myself set up

 

that moment when you have been sitting in a classroom for so long by yourself that the light decides to switch itself off, plunging you into an eerie semi darkness

 

Even the light decided it was time to go home.

 

well, eventually three people turned up, saving me from wondering what i had done wrong, and damn, lets just say one of them was quite nice looking

 

The moment you realize, while doing squats during a keep fit class, you should not have eaten beans the night before.

 

The moment you realize, while doing squats during a keep fit class, that the person in front of you ate beans the night before.

 

^ Guess they were working those beans out of their system.

TMW...

You realize just how good it feels to do exercises after a long day at work.

 

That moment when the cracking idea for a short story, the one that you successfully ran through your head, not once but twice, (while the ad break was on) dissipates like a puff of smoke.

Dammit!

 

That moment when it all comes back to you, and you think to yourself: How very Edgar Allen Poe.

 

TMW your S.O. is getting ready for a trip and you realize, sadly, that he's just a little useless.

 

TMW a herald of the Old Ones appears outside your sliding door and you dash to your closet to grab your cultist robes and Cthulhu effigy, only to get outside and realize it was just a toad.

 

We get cane toads where I live. What do you get in your neck of the woods?

 

(superfluous "when" edited out of my post)

We get the imaginatively-named "California Toad"

http://www.californiaherps.com/frogs/pages/b.b.halophilus.html

 

TMW you slump down in front of your computer screen with the days lunch before you and when you open your browser to find a good movie Internet crashes...

 

This is God telling you to stop wasting time and write!

 

Nah, it wouldn't work. First he'd have to tell me that he exists.

 

TMW you get a rush contract from your most important client and you of course accept, but when you get the package it's twice the size as originally indicated and it's needed for trial this afternoon. The billing estimate is correct for the increased size, so it's not that you're not going to get correctly paid, and it's not that you would have said no, because saying yes is how one keeps the waters flowing in the river of independent contracting, but it would have been nice to know the true size of the package you were going to receive because you're just a one-man-show, not a group of people, and one needs to get one's head wrapped around the work that's expected, and...

...I need to get back to the project now.

 

TMW your lecturer tells you that potato tubers are stems, not roots.

 

It helps to remember that "potato" is one of the funniest words in the English language.

 

I must admit I've never really pondered upon that. Though if anyone asked me about the funniest word in English (that I know) I'd probably respond with "smorgasbord" because of how ridiculous that word is to a swede.