An email intercepted by the NSA detailing the mundane life of an American

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An email intercepted by the NSA detailing the mundane life of an American
citizen at work

> From: Sean Conner <[email protected]>
> To: Sean Hoade <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
> Subject: Re: Happy Birthday, Part Deux
> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 16:14:53 -0500
>
> > From: Sean Hoade <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
> > To: Sean Conner <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Happy Birthday, Part Deux
> > Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 21:02:51 -0800
> >
> > Young(ish) Mister Conner,
> >
> > I hope you had a fine day. I know you're extremely busy, but I just
> > wanted to take another moment out if your day to tell you how much you
> > are appreciated and loved. I'm getting sappy in my old age, but what the
> > hell. :)
> >
> > All good thoughts, my friend.
> >
> > Hoade
> >
>
> I did.
>
> Today?
>
> Today all I want is a nap. I am so tired. This morning, I had a dream where
> I was so tired I want to go to sleep. How weird is that, dreaming that I'm
> tired and want sleep.
>
> Tuesday at the office? Flew by quickly.
>
> Wednesday at the office? Flew by quickly.
>
> Today at the office? It's like time decided it has enough of flowing
> quickly and was going to take it easy today and slowly drift by. The
> bastard!
>
> So I'm sitting in my office, heavy jacket on (this is Florida, where it
> tends to be colder indoors than out, but I think you know that already),
> struggling, struggling I say! to keep my nose from hitting the keyboard. It
> hurts when that happens.
>
> The project I'm working on has gone from the interesting 90% of the work to
> the dull, boring, dotting-every-t-and-crossing-every-i nit picky
> detail work that takes the other 90% of the development time to finish. And
> it's not the mindless dull, boring, dotting-every-t-and-crossing-every
> i nit picky detail work, but the just-mindful-enough-that-I-could-
> only-wish-it-was-mindless dull, boring, dotting-every-t-and-
> crossing-every-i nit picky detail work that requires just enough mental
> power to make it ever so tiresome.
>
> And you know what? Everything I typed so far? Take a guess at how long it
> took me. Go ahead, take a guess. Nope. Nope. Still to long. Nope. Three
> seconds. That's how much time elapsed from the time I started typing this
> reply to the time I finished the preceeding paragraph. When did I start
> travelling at relativistic speeds? Time hasn't moved this slowly since high
> school English, which, in an odd way, is a nice change from the wait-I-
> just-blinked-why-it-is-a-month-later time flying by, but it would be
> nice if I didn't have to deal with this just-mindful-enough-that-I-
> could-only-wish-it-was-mindless dull, boring, dotting-every-t-and-
> crossing-every-i nit picky detail work that requires just enough mental
> power to make it ever so tiresome.
>
> Sigh.
>
> Only another two seconds have passed.
>
> At this rate, I think I could churn out a copy of Atlas Shurgged [1] in ten
> minutes. Hmmm … scratch that, I think I would only be able to slug out a
> copy of _War and Peace_ [2] in ten minutes; _Atlas Shrugged_ [3] would take
> eleven.
>
> Perhaps if I make another cup of tea …
>
> -spc (I just blinked and now it's 34 years later … )
>

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2001/10/23.1
[2] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400079985/conmanlaborat-20
[3] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0452011876/conmanlaborat-20

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