Word: descented
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...diaphragm labors draw the viscous fluid into my screaming lungs, then expels it out again through my narrow trachea. I am in a slow-motion free-fall through frigid, silent water, receding from the dim light of the sun as the deep rushes to swallow me. Every moment of descent adds thousands of pounds of water pressure that compress me on all sides, but I am not crushed. I just continue to fall, with no end in sight. I begin to hallucinate...
...dreams are interrupted by a startling but welcome sight: the Bottom. With a primal scream, my heart leaps as the end of my torture emerges. I wait out a subjective eternity as the sea floor rises to greet me, and finally, mercifully, end my descent...
...descent continues, for me, until Monday. Then, having hit bottom, I will transform into a human bubble, light as air I will shoot up through the Harvard Trench of finals period, and undergo explosive decompression. I will float right to the top of the mythical mountain, and draw my first pure breath of freedom in more than a month. I can't wait...
Saturday's inaugural festivities are stirring up a lot of excitement in the nation's capital. But not everyone looking forward to the 20th is spending the week in search of the perfect dress or tuxedo - thousands of protesters are also eagerly planning their descent on Washington, ready to speak out against... well, pretty much everything...
...descent starts to steepen, some of the passengers are starting to scream (including a few Fed governors, according to Monday's Wall Street Journal). Last week, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) implored the Fed to cut rates and avoid a recession before it was "too late." And a sizable minority of Wall Street went into Tuesday thinking Greenspan should have cut rates by a quarter-point, as a Christmas gift to the markets and as an acknowledgment that...