Veruca Salt said it so well

[yendi]

"A million miles of running and I hit the wall.
I bounce back and I run some more." -- "Volcano Girls"

That's today in a nutshell. Notice that "nutshell," a compound word, contains "nuts" and "hell."* Not a coincidence.

*Yes, I know that most "reputable" dictionaries will claim that the word is formed of "nut" and "shell," but that's just part of the great conspiracy. The same one that causes the OED entry for "set" to be 38 pages long and secretly written in iambic pentameter.

Comments

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

As we're both otherwise spoken for, I can't actually ask you to marry me, but please accept the sentiment that such an invitation would communicate, in any case.

This made my afternoon, BTW.

[girlwslingshot.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!