Wednesday, January 30, 2008

brain scramble

My head's scrambly this evening. I'm blaming the weather. And undergrads.

I opened my email inbox just now and scanned quickly, as I often do. This was the most recent email's subject:
perfectly crafted exclusive
watches rolex
And my brain filled in something about "crotches" and "wax". Exactly what is gone now, obliterated by a real actual reading of the subject line (a sort of literate double take).

I know my unconscious choice of top down to make intelligible the set of scrambled letters could indicate I'm a perv. In my defense, the subject lines in spam (which my inbox is full of courtesy of the university's hideous spam filter) do make those words contextually probable.

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