Complex cheese p(air)ings: a postmodernist approach and 9,078 words

Since I only had 40 minutes to write today, I clocked 1,400 words. A full 300 of these words were the verbatim response of the head chef of Bros. restaurant in Lecce, Italy to the amazingly hilarious restaurant review. If a picture is worth 1000 words, I suppose I could add in a drawing of a man on a horse and up today's word contribution to 2,400.

The plot is moving forward somewhat. In the excerpt today, Serena, Evelyn, Gordon and Colm are embarking on the beginning of the mission.

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I silently cursed myself for staying up late last night researching the George Brown College Professional Cheesemonger Program, rather than reading Gordon’s extensive research package. I had almost registered for the online course called “Complex cheese p(air)ings: a post-modernist approach” but had fallen asleep with my face in my stilton instead. “Page 62,” Gordon stated, nodding to the research package in my lap.

I flipped through to the requested page, noticing that in addition to Gordon’s usual Arial font were what appeared to be corrections and additions in Comic Sans font. I pointed to one such passage, raising a questioning eyebrow in Gordon’s direction.

“Ah, yes,” he said. “I sent a draft copy to Colm, since he is from Stratford and I thought he could offer some assistance with the finer details. Unfortunately, he does not know how to use the ‘track changes’ feature in the word processing program, so his corrections and comments are all embedded in the text. He tried to draw more attention to them by using a different font, which I do not believe had the desired effect. I thought I had gotten to all of them. Obviously I did not.”

I could not ignore the blush that rose in Gordon’s cheeks when he said Colm’s name. Making a mental note of this I turned my attention back to the research package, finally arriving at page 62.