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Okay, I picked this word because I saw it on the back of a cooking magazine sitting right here on my desk. "Heavenly Cheeses", it's a piece about a bunch of nuns who make artisanal cheese. Could have been worse. They could have gone for the "What A Friend We Have In Cheeses" joke. I would have. The thing with these exercises is that you never know quite where you're going to go with the thought, you simply just have to keep writing. I never used to be able to do these exercises on the computer, I always did them by hand. There's a different feel to writing with a keyboard and it took me a very long time to get used to it. In fact, I almost never write things out by hand anymore unless it's to jot something down in a notebook. It's actually physically painful for me to write for any length of time. The pinched nerve that runs down my left arm gets easily irritated, and I find that after just a few minutes of writing with a pen, my hand is half-numb. So my very expensive pen collection sits unused on a corner of my dresser. I've considered selling off the pens. Some of them are fairly expensive, and even as second-hand items they'd be worth a couple of hundred bucks a piece. I imagine there's enough value in the set to make them worth selling.
So far this has almost nothing to do with cheese, but I can see from my timer that I have five minutes left to go. I *suppose* I can come up with something cheese-related in the space of five minutes. I've got a fridge full of cheese right now. I tend to buy cheese on speculation. Which is to say that I will buy some cheese that strikes my fancy when I see it in the groccery store, whether I need it or not. When there are enough different ones sitting around, I'll declare a "Cheese Night" and we'll have cheeses and crackers and other little nibbles for dinner instead of some cooked dish. Sometimes, though, I don't get around to it in time and find myself throwing away a bunch of cheese that never got eaten. It's not quite the same as wasting money on pens -- I'm far more likely to eat the cheese than I am to use the pens. Still, it's a waste and it's one of those things that irritates me a notch more than it probably should. Mostly I feel stupid for having not noticed all these bits of cheese waiting to be eaten. But I'll turn around and do it all over again.
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