The clock struck ten. Three hours of accounting homework had left her colorful tresses a little disarrayed and damp and her bottom lip was swollen from her nervously nibbling on it every time she had to calculate retained earnings.
Accounting is such a tease
, she mused.
It promises sweet, sweet discipline but really all it does is punish.
It pulls you in like "Everything is so straightforward. You're looking for structure in your life, maybe a little bit of discipline? Come into a relationship with me. I'll tell you what you're allowed to do and what you're not."
She noticed a button on her blouse had worked itself loose, revealing a little more skin than she had intended for a serious task like finishing an accounting assignment. As she surveyed herself, she thought with a chuckle that the laughing figure on the cover of her accounting text -- a tall, nerdy guy in a purple sweater -- was surely eyeing her cleavage appreciatively. She could practically feel his long, slim fingers brushing her most sensitive spots ever so gently -- although, for what she paid for the book, he had damn well better be willing to service her in any way she wanted. She rubbed her swollen lips together as she thought about them leisurely pleasuring each other until she had cried out and shuddered in wild, wanton abandon at least as many times as she had been forced to compute a subtotal in the most recent income statement...
And then it turns out that Accounting doesn't actually allow anything except one technique, which it insists on you doing over and over again until you feel like you'll die of boredom and your hand cramps up. Then you have to do it sixteen more times on the exam so you can get an internship and do it five hundred more times until you get a job and do it three thousand times a year -- and get no satisfaction out of it. Oh yes, you do accounting -- but Accounting never does anything back. What a selfish bastard.
How different this course was from the innocent, vanilla veneer of introductory accounting. Dewy-eyed ingenues thought they were ready for the Rules, but they would be unprepared when they actually had to follow them...or else.
She had that hidden strength -- and could handle the discipline. What she needed now, though, was a break and a way to forget about the strictures (and repeated pairs of letters) of double-entry bookkeeping. It would have to be a singularly powerful experience, however; three hours of arid had left the inside of her mouth feeling like sawdust and she doubted anything short could remind her how much she used to enjoy life so much. It had been a long time since she'd felt the
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