(no way) know how

currently working alongside a group of business students, who are discussing a group project. they're talking mission statements and taglines and growth strategies. it's all good. until the leader of the pack -- like a (twenty-two-year-old) priest attempting to empower a parishioner -- says to one of her colleagues:

you are becoming the CEO of your knowledge.

a fifteen-letter word comes to mind: gagmewithaspoon.

and now back to translating...

the lovers and the fighters

in one corner: the bible studies committee. leafing through the "good book". quoting so-and-so's.

in the other corner: the business dude. conducting condescending quality assessments of his peer-aged "inferiors". tossing around strategies for manipulating potential clients (aka you and me). regularly dropping the eff-bomb.

as each bomb drops, Corner One glances over at Corner Two. darts shoot quietly from their eyes. they make disapproving faces. resume their quoting. discuss how their conversions are going.

Corner Two: oblivious.

the Spectators: un-com-fortable...

and now back to translating...