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Where (We’re) the heck’a’wee?

Working or just joking around?

John at a school (I don’t know which)

John and I have worked on a few papers and proposals during our time at Boise State University. As per usual, he would poke me with a telescoping pointer under my arm so I would jerk, make weird comments about this and that, and we would always go off the track. Alas, I am also not known by my extreme concentration skills, either!

It was one of those days again… After presumably an hour detour of talking about this and that without achieving anything, I tend to say, “Now, where the eff were we?” or sometimes more politely “Where the heck are we?” That day, John pulled off this gem that we made us go off to another tangent for another half an hour:

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