6.66 and eggnog
So I'm done with the semester and most of my 'colleagues' have gone home for the holidays. I'll be taking the train back to the midwest tomorrow.
I figured I would send out a new round of manuscripts because I kinda like collecting rejection slips. Some of them even use different fonts. But anyway, six manuscripts at $1.11 each for postage came out to $6.66. I was hoping for something auspicious, but this? Was there some Faustian pact involved? Probably not but the lady at the post office gave me the raised-eyebrow look, asked me if I needed anything else.
"Well, uh, I think I better get some stamps."
And the look and smile she gave me seemed to say, you done been saved.
Which brings me to a totally irrelevant topic: eggnog, which is a delicious, creamy, and thoroughly unhealthy beverage. Yesterday I did the math and discovered I had consumed 1500 calories of eggnog alone. Happy holidays.
I figured I would send out a new round of manuscripts because I kinda like collecting rejection slips. Some of them even use different fonts. But anyway, six manuscripts at $1.11 each for postage came out to $6.66. I was hoping for something auspicious, but this? Was there some Faustian pact involved? Probably not but the lady at the post office gave me the raised-eyebrow look, asked me if I needed anything else.
"Well, uh, I think I better get some stamps."
And the look and smile she gave me seemed to say, you done been saved.
Which brings me to a totally irrelevant topic: eggnog, which is a delicious, creamy, and thoroughly unhealthy beverage. Yesterday I did the math and discovered I had consumed 1500 calories of eggnog alone. Happy holidays.
posted by Franz K at 1:45 PM
2 Comments:
Ironically enough, a few days after reading your post, I was in the Safeway store in Santa Cruz searching for goat cheese when I came across one labelled $6.66. As a tempter of fate I felt like buying it but my cautious companion opted for a safer $5.43 lump.
And I thought...Franz would have been down for buying the Satan goat cheese
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