Completely, unblinkingly alert, you start thinking again about the first sentence. “Previous scholarship has typically conceptualized…” Six seconds later you check your e-mail. You switch back to your word processor for a bit, but then you start reading some blogs. You check your e-mail again. Then back to blogs.
I suspect this is much of how the past several months in your office have gone.
— Violet, by Jeremy Freese (in IFComp 08)
