A couple weeks ago, I had a bad start to the week. Nothing disastrous, I just hadn’t wanted to get out of bed.<\/p>\n
I spoke to the people I encountered at work, responding to the inevitable question ‘How are you doing?”:<\/p>\n
“Ugh. This monday is steep.”<\/p>\n
A metaphor, perhaps. Steep, meaning hard to climb. It was a monday that was hard to get through.<\/p>\n
Not too long after, a friday appeared. It was at the end of a long week. Someone said, again “How are you doing?”<\/p>\n
“This has been a long week. It has only one foot, and it’s in its stomach.”<\/p>\n
Alright, that was was a bit of a riddle.<\/p>\n
Here’s the thing, no one understood the “steep” for what I meant…They all said “Steep? What?”<\/p>\n
The statement about the week having one foot in its stomach sent the poor recipient into a complete tailspin. I even TOLD him I meant a snail, but he was still listening to his own voice wondering what it could possibily mean and he didn’t hear me. I told him about three times before he got it.<\/p>\n
“A gastropod! A snail has only one foot and that foot is in it’s stomach! I am only saying the week is going by slowly!”<\/p>\n
“A foot in it’s stomach…Do you mean that someone kicked<\/em> you in the stomach?’<\/p>\n “no…a snail…”<\/p>\n (repeat)<\/p>\n I believe I have a gift for describing things in unusual ways. I like<\/em> describing things in unexpected ways.<\/p>\n An adjective is fine, but I want to find an odd-jective to do the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A couple weeks ago, I had a bad start to the week. Nothing disastrous, I just hadn’t wanted to get out of bed. I spoke to the people I encountered at work, responding to the inevitable question ‘How are you … Continue reading