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The Definition of Great
Great - an adjective - one syllable - roots in latin.
1. How you feel when it's eight o'clock in the evening at WXYZ LLP (we have a new partner) and you've just finished this strange project for one of your bosses, allowing you to finally get started on the work that you were originally staying late for, and as you start to really get into the productivity zone, with caffiene bumping through your arteries, happy that you can't feel the eyestrain you ought to have by now, your favorite song on the playlist comes on, and you start bobbing your head crazily and mouthing the lyrics, more or less rocking out very quietly at your desk, when you realize the cute boss is sitting in his office immediately across from yours, one hand over his mouth, trying very, very hard to not laugh at you, and failing. That's. Just. Great.
2. When you've just gotten your holiday bonus, and you've just gotten out of work at about 10 PM at night, and you discover that Macy's is still open because of holiday hours, so you can still go in and shop for two hours, all by yourself, as they're setting up the sale markdowns for the next day. While there, you find a Shelly Segal Laundry sexy swishtail tweed skirt being marked down 75%. You try it on, it fits perfectly, and you skip up to the counter, all excited. You're informed you'll get another 15% off for using your Macy's card, which you hand over very quickly. You're informed that it's declined because you've got a balance on it of exactly 10.00, and you forgot to send them a check for at least 2.00 of that. You're getting hit with a 20 dollar late fee, and you can't use the discount. You know how you feel at that moment? You feel great.
3. When the office holiday party happens, and you're sat at a table full of strangers because your date for the evening had to leave early. Three of them are the musicians from earlier in the evening, who you try to be nice to, because these nice old gentlemen are completely out of their element. As the five course meal comes by, you discover that these nice old gentlemen aren't so nice, and they aren't really gentlemen. The evening caps itself off when you're standing next to your favorite boss, the woman who made sure you were promoted and has taken you under her scary, powerful wing, and as you're about to get her to tell you a funny success story, a man older than your father comes up to you and talks to you about comfort zones, while indelicately slipping you his number. When your boss says "What the hell are you doing?" and to cover for everyone you say "The Jazz club they play at is really skeezy but the music is great."
4. When you've decided to give up on men for the time being, for it tis the season to be single, fa-la-la-la-la, your shoulder devil of a roommate starts dating this German girl who has the loudest bedroom voice of all time. And they're home every night. Starting at night. That's great irony, right there. Huge, bang-up, great.
5. When your regular blog on Motime isn't letting you update, even though you've got three computers with three different operating systems at home and no less than eight different browsers, and you can't update on a single damn one of them, and these complete strangers are sending you momail messages, asking if everything is ok. Well, since you asked, except for the fact that I can't update, everything's great!