Monday, September 7, 2009

Study Break

During this one week of Study Break I would like to waste half an hour of my life to waste five minutes of your life.
If you were not satisfied with your five minutes wasted please write me a lengthy email detailing why you weren't satisfied and I will refund your five minutes wasted by reading this with the five minutes you will spend writing me a complaint.

Ah yes, the joys of 'Study Break'. Relishing in the ambiguity of the phrase I pause and realise how I have already started procrastinating.
'Study Break' could of course be interpreted 3 ways.
The first being as a Break from universitas to study.
The second (and probably the most popular) interpretation interprets the statement as a Break from Study.
And the third and final interpretation is the act of studying a certain type of music that blends Hip Hop, Rock and Breakdancing into a comglomeration of sound, music and feeling. It is truely a sight to behold, but then again 'A man eating a blender' is a sight to behold as well and I don't plan on doing that in the near future.
So while on this 'Study Break' (choose your own interpretaion) I may as well ramble aimlessly to give myself the illusion of accomplashing great feats. It is a great misfortune that I cannot major in English Literature because then I would also be studying. For my first ramble I wish to draw your attention to ambigous phrases.
Besides 'Study Break' one that I relish is 'I will deal with it momentarily.'
When used your subject is often at ends with the meaning. "Does he mean 'I will deal with it soon.'?" He muses to himself, "Or does he mean 'I will only deal with it for the duration of a moment.'?"
Oh course the added advantage of this confusion is that your subject doesn't notice their wallet being pocketed or a small sample of thier blood being taken... for research purposes of course.

But alas, I must leave you my loyal companions, for the night is young and you frankly could do to lose a few kilos.

AWAY!

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