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A Teeny Transit Tale
Eit: I missed every single connection. I saw the CT2 go by, while I waited for my relief to take the desk; I left Harvest in time to miss the 91, I missed the train at Sullivan and for good measure missed the 100.
Pock: I met a guy working on his PhD.
I was standing at the CT2 stop listening to a man in his late 20's/early 30's talking to a woman in her early 20's, and I caught vocabulary that suggested a discussion of australopithecines. After the young woman left I went over and asked if he taught anthropology. He does; he's dividing his time between teaching at BU and researching in Africa (explained some facts about the Darfur situation that were really useful) and we chatted on the way to Central. Later, I was sitting on the 91 when he boarded (so it was fortuitous I'd missed the previous, I guess); I pretended not to see him in case he just wanted to ride home in peace, but he greeted me and we spent the ride chatting more (mostly I asked questions and he answered them at length).We exchanged work-related info, and he told me to keep reading, that I have a lot of knowledge in my head. (And encouraged me to take classes at BU, which I have been considering/researching recently.)
He's a really good explainer, and I definetely will tell the School Assembly planners about him. (Plus, he's attractive, though, no, that's not why I talked to him. Tall, long-limbed, big dark eyes, dark straight hair falling just so over his broad forehead, and a nose which is charmingly longer than standard. I think our students would like him.)
Pock: I met a guy working on his PhD.
I was standing at the CT2 stop listening to a man in his late 20's/early 30's talking to a woman in her early 20's, and I caught vocabulary that suggested a discussion of australopithecines. After the young woman left I went over and asked if he taught anthropology. He does; he's dividing his time between teaching at BU and researching in Africa (explained some facts about the Darfur situation that were really useful) and we chatted on the way to Central. Later, I was sitting on the 91 when he boarded (so it was fortuitous I'd missed the previous, I guess); I pretended not to see him in case he just wanted to ride home in peace, but he greeted me and we spent the ride chatting more (mostly I asked questions and he answered them at length).We exchanged work-related info, and he told me to keep reading, that I have a lot of knowledge in my head. (And encouraged me to take classes at BU, which I have been considering/researching recently.)
He's a really good explainer, and I definetely will tell the School Assembly planners about him. (Plus, he's attractive, though, no, that's not why I talked to him. Tall, long-limbed, big dark eyes, dark straight hair falling just so over his broad forehead, and a nose which is charmingly longer than standard. I think our students would like him.)
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And yeah, I'd urge you to continue learning and reading and take a class or two.
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(Dr. Whom commandeers the keyboard. "'Fortunate', my dear. It was already fortuitous, which means 'by chance: by fortune', but the fortune is not necessarily good fortune." He blows browngirl a kiss and disappears again into thnidu's mind.)
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And thanks for the correction.
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Where? Whence? How? What language or allusion?
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'Eit' and 'Pock' are bits of slang I picked up from hanging out with geeky computer programming types. 'Pock' is 'the sound it makes when the Universe gives you a free pinball'. I don't know about 'Eit'.
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How do you pronounce it? "Eight"? "Eat"? Something else? "Pock" rhymes with "clock", yes?
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"Pock" does rhyme with "clock".
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(The Doctor pops up:
I would expect one possibility to be rhyming with "kite", pronouncing "eit" as though it were German. Your description is pretty close to that.)
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