Monday is never good for anyone, is it? Let's not get in to that whole thing. Right now it's about 95 degrees in our office and I am suddenly troubled by the fact that there is no symbol for "degrees" on this keyboard. Let's not get into that whole thing either.

All that I wanted to say right now was that I was writing some web content for READ magazine today, and as I was going along, I found myself writing the word "disappoint" in a sentence. The exact sentence was "Here, in issue 5, we do not disappoint."

Disappoint? That can't be right. Surely, there are two Ss and only one P? A super quick glance at dictionary.com confirmed my original spelling. How disgusting. Shouldn't that be phonetically sounded out as - dis-uh-puh-point? Why does that word need two Ps? Am I crazy? I can't be the only one who sees how wrong this is? Am I?

Perhaps I am just tired. But sometimes, words just look ugly and wrong to me. Sometimes, I'll stare at a word like "disappoint" or "height" or "circus" and I'll go crazy. I'll just go absolutely nuts trying to figure out how someone originally thought that THAT was the best way to spell that word. And, being unable to come up with any logical conclusion, I'll completely flip out and totally scare away my co-workers.

"Bry, are you OK?"
"I'm disappointed. Disappointed. Disappointed. Disappointed."

Words can kill. Be careful out there.