At work yesterday, two colleagues were talking loudly.<\/p>\n
I had my headphones on. I was writing marketing copy and studying pictures of Slave Leia outfits (work related, honest!).<\/p>\n
I heard, or I thought I heard, one of my colleagues say, “This is how The Stand<\/i> began.”<\/p>\n
Naturally, I was curious. I dropped my headphones. “The Stand<\/i>? You mean that someone’s been experimenting on monkeys and super-flu again?”<\/p>\n
One looked at me and said, “Swine flu.”<\/p>\n
I shugged. “And that is…?”<\/p>\n
The other said, “Swine flu.”<\/p>\n
“Oookay,” I said. “Pigs get flu?”<\/p>\n
“Allyn, have you even been paying attention to the news?”<\/p>\n
I bit my lip. “Umm, honestly, umm, no. Unless it had to do with the Cubs, and they were awful this weekend.”<\/p>\n
The writer in the cubicle next to mine said, “You really need to pay more attention.”<\/p>\n
I nodded. “Right.”<\/p>\n
I went back to writing about Slave Leia outfits and, a little later in the morning, The Nightmare Before Christmas<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Y’know, once upon a time I really loved The Nightmare Before Christmas<\/i>. Then it became a lifestyle brand, and now I don’t like it so much.<\/p>\n
Then I had my head shorn. It’s still longer than I’d like.<\/p>\n
And I wrote only 577 words on “THOD” yesterday. Good words, it’s a good scene. Quality, not quantity, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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