Thursday, March 02, 2006

The split second awakening

My TV was on, my alarm clock just went off and I was still sleeping. NBC was running the news when I heard India and [...]. In the split second my brain filled in the gap - India and Pakistan. But the word was wrong and the training my brain took over the years needed a new dictionary. It was India and US. The context "India" appeared in the US news in was different. I was awake by now.

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