Wednesday, December 18, 2013

reacting negatively to positive news

When you're given lemons, break a pencil into two unequal pieces.

Normally you'd say 'break a pencil in half' but how often, when breaking a pencil, does it end up being two pieces of exactly equal length?

Last year at this time of year it was also December. I should know.

Christmas shopping, as a form of sport, is difficult to measure. As such I believe it should be judged on a qualitative scale.

If I was stuck in a quagmire (a word I seem to use often in this blog).

5 comments:

Zhoen said...

I know you can't break a piece of dry spaghetti in half. It snaps in threes, at least.

Figured out, I'm not even getting an extra day off for Christmas, since Wednesday is my usual day off.

Phil Plasma said...

You'd think that if your regular day off is Wednesday which is a Holiday, they'd give you the holiday on a different day. By the sounds of your comment, I guess that isn't the case. I'd say get a new job, but you seem to be mostly pleased about the job you have.

My company closes from the 24th to the 1st inclusive. I have taken the 23rd as a vacation day, so my last day of work until Jan 2 is the 20th.

Debstar said...

It's been awhile since anyone gave me lemons. I juiced them. I don't think I've ever bothered breaking a pencil in two.

Phil Plasma said...

My son eats lemons. I don't.

It has been a long time since I've broken a pencil willingly.

Zhoen said...

I ate lemons as a kid, loved 'em.