I don't do much work at work. But when I do it, I do it right. For instance, I have to send an email to our company's accountant. So I just spent an extra ten minutes reading up on mass nouns vs. count nouns (and from there, I moved on to splitting infinitives, ending sentences with prepositions, and possessives for words ending in S). I'm only doing this in order to decide whether to write "The data aren't in the spreadsheet" or "The data isn't in the spreadsheet," which at the end of the day, will turn out to be a completely trivial and meaningless decision. But I still haven't chosen. This may be a good time to get some coffee (mass noun). But first I have to wash my cup (count noun).
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