The exercise:
Let's get the week started with: the replacement.
It's been a very long day and I am quite ready for bed.
So that's where I'm headed.
Mine:
Kelly's right hand was halfway to the phone on his desk when the girl from the temp agency finally showed up in his doorway. He adjusted its course so that it instead arrived on a report he had been ignoring for the last week, which he then shifted to the opposite side of his desk.
"You're late." A quick look at the time would have informed him that leaving late unmodified was a generous decision. Appropriate choices included: very, extremely, and monstrously.
"Sorry sir, the first three buses were completely full so I had to wait at the stop for -"
"And now, instead of getting right to work, you're choosing to waste even more time by offering up an utterly worthless tale." Kelly removed his glasses and inspected them for a moment, looking for smudges. "How about we don't bother with that, hmm?"
"Yes, of course. Sorry sir."
