Pulitzer-worthy financial reporting

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So I can't count very high, right? I lost interest in Maths the minute I found out that Pi doesn't actually involve eating anything.

There's just something about numbers that make my brain seize up and immediately misfire. Yet, I am writing, tonight, about something having to do with stats, facts, finances and figures. For work! It's about something financial and luckily I don't actually have to count, subtract, add, divide or multiply anything. But I have to wrap my mind around some new concepts and keep the numbers straight enough to at least quote them correctly.

Incidentally, the subject of finances came up with a friend as well today and I reached the following epiphany: One should never EVER launder money. Because, duh, everyone KNOWS it's dry clean only! (Especially these brand new Mandela notes that we now have here in South Africa.)

*Rim shot*

Thank you, thank you. I'll be here 'til now-now (South African term for anytime between now and a few centuries from this moment).

And yes, astonishingly, people do actually take me seriously at work!

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