Sem-end

My sister asked me what I had planned for the endsem. I had no answer, and this surprised me. I thought of sem-end of course, and how that word held within it a liquid promise that I caught though most probably will never use, verbal viscosity aside. Punning remains a low-level technique, Finnegan notwithstanding. What I find curious is how I have been playing with the word without my eye on the clock. All this time. I have dog-trained myself away from the awareness of a break. People think they need it. I can't.