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Literally bored

My coworker known as Misuser Of The Word Literally just cornered me in a hallway to complain about how much work she has to do, and how she's been working late for a couple weeks now, and then she asked me what I was up to, and I had to admit that I was sort of wandering around, thinking about getting something to drink. I left out the part where I was also trying to find if there was a stack of blank CD-Rs anywhere that I could pillage, and ever since my team's fortuitous deadline extension I haven't done shit all day, aside from a conference call this morning that I sort of wandered away from after ten minutes.

There's a guy here who is not a Misuser Of The Word Literally, but definitely an Over-User of it, which keeps me on my toes. So instead of "I literally died laughing" or whatever, he just throws it in as filler: "You can literally move the mouse yourself and literally click on the button and see, literally see, what happens on the computer screen." I am concerned about how he perceives the world.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

4 Comments

#1 larry

I literally read this post literally a minute ago.

April 29, 2008 06:24 PM
#2 Evan

ha. i would love to be your coworker and have you describe me.

April 30, 2008 12:29 AM
#3 Alan

I'd imagine he perceives the world quite literally.

April 30, 2008 04:16 AM
#4 Tom

I thought you were super busy?

April 30, 2008 12:47 PM