Thursday 24 May 2007

Oh, the Irony

An old friend who I haven't seen for a long while, since he walked out of my life, came to visit last night. He sat on the front step with me, and we both looked at the garden, and he said, "How have you been? I've been thinking about you recently."

Standard thing to say, right?

But I'm not thinking, "Oh, how nice, he came back" or even "What a jerk for disappearing on me and letting me worry about him for all these years". No, I'm thinking, "Hmm, paralinguistics combined with phatic features and the use of implicit language imply procrastination probably due to nervousness."

DAMMIT!

And here I thought I emerged from English exams unscathed.