contrition (with some smut thrown in for good measure)

so, i'm feeling contrite for my lack of posting. although, in my defense i do point to the week-long migraine which basically incapacitated me.

but then, that would only explain the last week. it would not explain the fact that i haven't written anything remotely interesting since november.

perhaps we'll blame the gods. i'm not sure how, or why, but they seem a handy scapegoat in this case...

i do have a brilliant day to blog about that involves much schadenfreude (for others, not me, since it would be at my expense...), it involves a migraine and a comedy of errors. but frankly i don't have the energy to write it all our just now.

so, i will appease you with this tiny tale...

somehow over the last week 'the word of the day' has been instituted at our office. there is important context here. first, the only participants in the word of the day game are the bad asses in our office (of which i am proudly one). second, some of the participants do not speak english as their first language.

last week on wednesday the word of the day was "rack", as in "hey baby, nice rack!". when one co-worker started walking through the office announcing she had two racks we quickly needed to correct her and point out that two boobs equal one rack...

i was out of the office on thursday and friday, so these are heresay...

i heard that thursday's word of the day was "balls", as in "wow, he's got some big balls on him!". or for those of you who prefer to get right to the point, testicles.

i believe friday's word was smudge. personally i don't understand how that qualifies since it is not dirty or potentially work inappropriate at all in any way.

today the word of the day was "smut".

the best part of the word of the day game is getting the people who don't speak english as their first language (i'm thinking now of one lovely francophone in particular who for the purposes of this post we will call glitter bear, because, well, i feel like it...) guess what it is that they think the word of the day means. today when we announced to glitter bear at my birthday lunch that the word of the day was "smut" she guessed that it was 'women with boobs that hang down really low'. after chuckles (i've spoken of chuckles in the past) managed to bring her self back up from the booth bench which she'd fallen onto while laughing we informed glitter bear what smut was (harder to describe than you'd think), and told her that the word for 'women with boobs that hang down really low' is actually a collection of words and they are: "women with boobs that hang down really low". it didn't occur to me to ask, but i now find myself wondering if there is a french word for 'women with boobs that hang down really low'.