The day was average,
and I had been awake for some length time.
There had been a flood in the building
earlier on. I heard a highbrow say "horseshit."
The day was average.

Comfortably surrounded in repetition,
I chanced to - Today's topic is going to
be about - auditorium with that
Indian girl who sometimes sits in back.
She looks like - How well are system resources
utilized? - but more outgoing.

Sometimes I have trouble - of Effective
Throughput Calculation - at the right time.
Introductions - is also known as "Goodput" -
chance to me. It’s obvious I - or miss
penalty, is calculated - doesn't notice.
But I can never meet people like that.

Several rows back,
and to the right. I'd never seen her
before. We talked about reliability,
availability, and conspiracy theory.
She was cute.