As an Aspiring Artist and Wannabe Writer I am always looking for places to practice or display my work. One such place is the little whiteboard in the break room ( it is gray in color actually) where we fill in the status report for the ongoing coffee project. This miniature billboard is split in two with decaf on the left and regular on the right and the whole point being to put the day and time of the last brew so we can know how old it is. Wouldn’t want to throw out anything fresh or worse yet accidentally drink last night’s leftovers.
Because we never bother to change the time, it is perpetually set at 8am so the only info that changes is the day and this is in the abbreviated form of Mon, Tue, Wed etc… So there it is, my three letter marquee where people can read my latest writing or view my latest art, depending on my mood when I post. I go from calligraphy to swirly font and even tried a foreign language, Spanish, but stick with the basics for the most part.
M – T – W – Th – F …feeling lazy
t T * ( = …feeling cryptic
It is not a big deal, in fact everything about it is small. The area on the board is small because it is surrounded by further instructions that have faded in time but still restrict the actual size of the area in which to work. The potential audience is very small because there are only 70 people in the office and they don’t all go to the kitchen and of those only a few will take the time to read the coffee news. But in spite of those limitations I still manage to make the most of that recurring art show and find myself spending a few moments now and then imagining future works.
So it must be a big deal only for me. But we take what we can get in life eh? . If I squeeze the letters together I can get a fourth letter in there like these:
Moon – Tooz – Wenz – Thuz - Friz
Mony – Tuey – Wedy - Thry - Friy
I was going to condense the letters even further so it can go up to five characters per day but then I realized that would be more writing than I am willing to commit to.
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