Howdy Howdy

Hey, I'm writing this from home on my day off. I wonder if that means I can go in a half hour late on Monday? This does qualify as work, you know.

Last night we had six bright eyed youngsters attend writers night. Chris' friend, Emily, was our new face and I think she had fun. That reminds me, I need to send her an invite to this blog. OK, that's taken care of. Both Hannah and Katie returned after an absence and Luisa and Lauren sat by each other and bonded. Lauren showed off her book art project that I thought was really creative and I can't wait to see the final result.

Our writing exercise required us to incorporate these following words into a piece: elephant, archetype, onomatopoeia, sizzling, dune, silver halides and bloop. Here's mine contribution.

The elephant dropped water
bloop, bloop, bloop
off its trunk into the water hole.
"Bloop," the creature thought
"that's onomatopoeiac."

"I'm an archetype, you know"
the elephant said to the lion
lapping lazily.
"No, you're not. But I am"

The lion looked over at the elephant
he wondered at its bulk
it was like a sand dune
sizzling in the sun.

"If you were covered
in silver halides, elephant,
I'd lay upon you and
you'd have the silhouette
of a lion on your back."

"I'm an archetype," said the elephant.


XKCD

I still don't get tired of going to XKCD and hitting random. It's a great time waster. This one gave me a good chuckle.