In the meeting, the French language is being discussed as a technical problem.<\/p>\n
“They do not have shortened forms for the months.”<\/p>\n
Good for them.<\/em> I think. Not everything should fit by design.<\/p>\n This bitterness did not come quickly, but like the opposite of building up a resistance to a poison. Small doses of idiocy every day built up like a blood clot until my brain inherently knew an idiocy embollism was increasingly imminent.<\/p>\n Several deep sighs became a tsunami of stress, destroying little serene villages which once served as sanctuaries. Externally, I am gone; internally murderously present.<\/p>\n My eyes flicked from the presentation screen to my notes with sniper precision. Every new task slapped me in the face like the glove of a scorned lover. I bit my tongue, pinned from the fight by some unseen political bulwark. Humility unwanted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the meeting, the French language is being discussed as a technical problem. “They do not have shortened forms for the months.” Good for them. I think. Not everything should fit by design. 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