The class hottie is blonde. She wears heels to class. She doesn’t talk to anyone except, before class begins, she talks on her cellphone. She doesn’t look up when the instructor is talking; she doodles on a note pad. She leaves before class is finished. Yes, this is all true.
I’m taking an accelerated class: sixteen weeks of evening study delivered in eight weeks.
My camera broke. I am having photography withdrawals. I am having to go “cold turkey” until my new Canon Powershot arrives in the mail.
In the state of withdrawal, the addict’s blood is directed to the internal organs leaving the skin white and with goose bumps.
Quotation from www.phrases.org.uk, on the meaning of “cold turkey”
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